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The Russian alphabet ( ру́сский алфави́т, russkiy alfavit, [ a ] or ру́сская а́збука, russkaya azbuka, [ b ] more traditionally) is the script used to write the Russian language. It comes from the Cyrillic script, which was devised in the 9th century for the first Slavic literary language, Old Slavonic.
Russian cursive is a variant of the Russian alphabet used for writing by hand. It is typically referred to as (ру́сский) рукопи́сный шрифт (rússky) rukopísny shrift, " (Russian) handwritten font". It is the handwritten form of the modern Russian Cyrillic script, used instead of the block letters seen in printed material.
Unifon. The beginning of the Lord's Prayer, rendered in modern Unifon (two fonts), and in standard English orthography. Unifon is a Latin -based phonemic orthography for American English designed in the mid-1950s by Dr. John R. Malone, a Chicago economist and newspaper equipment consultant. It was developed into a teaching aid to help children ...
In typography, the long s is known as a type of swash letter, commonly referred to as a "swash s ". [ 2] The long s is the basis of the first half of the grapheme of the German alphabet ligature letter ß , [ 3] ( eszett or scharfes s, 'sharp s '). As with other letters, the long s may have a variant appearance depending on typeface: ſ, ſ, ſ ...
Cyrillic script in Unicode. As of Unicode version 15.1, Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks : The characters in the range U+0400–U+045F are basically the characters from ISO 8859-5 moved upward by 864 positions. The next characters in the Cyrillic block, range U+0460–U+0489, are historical letters, some of which are still used ...
Many fonts display this symbol incorrectly as being in line with the letters instead of subscripted below and to the left of them. Titlos were also used to form abbreviations, especially of nomina sacra ; this was done by writing the first and last letter of the abbreviated word along with the word's grammatical endings, then placing a titlo ...
Cursive is a style of penmanship in which the symbols of the language are written in a conjoined and/or flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster. . This writing style is distinct from "print-script" using block letters, in which the letters of a word are unconnected and in Roman/Gothic letterform rather than joined-up scri
Thorn or þorn ( Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic alphabet, Middle Scots, and some dialects of Middle English. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but it was later replaced with the digraph th, except in Iceland, where it survives.