Interesting facts about Russian language. Part 1 - Russian alphabet

in #blog9 years ago (edited)

Russian language is very beautiful and expressive. And also it is very complex for foreigners :)

I plan to make a series of posts to get you familiar with some interesting facts about my native language. So this is the first part and it is about Russian alphabet.

You can make a sentence with five letters that go in alphabetical order

Here is Russian alphabet:

And here is the sentence (to be more exact - the question):

You can make a question using only three vowels

There are two letters that do not have pronunciation

Here they are:

We call them just "Hard sign" and "Soft sign". They are used to make the preceding consonant sound harder or softer.

Thank you for reading and have a nice day!

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