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The Cyrillic Alphabet.

ChagenChagen
edited 2011-03-18 23:17:19 in General
[tɕagɛn]
It looks nice, but why exactly does it have some Roman characters and then it's own unique letters? It makes a for a cool but odd alphabet.

And if it did get some letters from the roman alphabet, some serious miscommunication happened there. I'd love for someone to explain how "P" came to be pronounced "Er".

Comments

  • DYREDYRE
    edited 2011-03-18 23:49:04
    P derives from the Greek letter rho, not the latin letter P.  In that case, it's the Romans who screwed something up, actually, since they decided to have their letter which is pronounced the same as the Greek letter pi look like rho.

  • BeholderessBeholderess
    Because it was in part derived from Greek alphabet. Which is not surprising, considering that it was "created" by two Orthodox monks.
  • NyktosNyktos
    edited 2011-03-19 00:03:27
    a little muffled
    Yeah, the reason it looks kinda like our alphabet but not quite is because they both derive largely from the Greek alphabet, except the Cyrillic one added other letters for sounds that Ancient Greek didn't have but Slavic languages did.
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