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The Romanian Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic alphabet is a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by five Slavic languages national languages as well as non-Slavic . It is also used by many other languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and other languages in the past....
 was used to write Romanian language
Romanian language

Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova....
 before 1860–1862, when it was officially replaced by a Latin-based alphabet
Romanian alphabet

The Romanian alphabet is a modification of the Latin alphabet and consists of 31 letters:The letters Q , W , and Y were officially introduced in the Romanian alphabet in 1982, although they had been used earlier....
, although Cyrillic remained in occasional use until circa 1920. It is not the same as the Russian-based
Russian alphabet

The modern Russian alphabet is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. It was introduced into Kievan Rus' at the time of Vladimir I of Kiev's conversion to Christianity date....
 Moldovan alphabet
Moldovan alphabet

The Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet is a Cyrillic alphabet and developed for the Romanian language/Moldovan language in the Soviet Union in the 1930s....
 used in Moldavian ASSR
Moldavian ASSR

The Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , shortened to Moldavian ASSR or, less frequently, Moldovan ASSR, was an autonomous republic of the Ukrainian SSR between 12 October 1924 and 2 August 1940, encompassing modern Transnistria and a number of territories that are now part of Ukraine....
 since 1926, and then in the Moldavian SSR
Moldavian SSR

The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic , commonly abbreviated to Moldavian SSR or MSSR, was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union....
 between 1940 and 1989.

Between its discarding and the full adoption of the Latin alphabet, a so-called transitional alphabet, was in place for a few years (it combined Cyrillic and Latin letters, and included some of the Latin letters with diacritic
Diacritic

A diacritic is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. The term derives from the Greek language d?a???t???? ....
s which came to be used in Romanian spelling).

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Letter Numerical
Value
Cyrillic numerals

Cyrillic numerals was a numbering system derived from the Cyrillic alphabet, used by South Slavs and East Slavs Slavic peoples. The system was used in Russia as late as the early 1700s when Peter I of Russia replaced it with the Arabic numeral system....
 Romanian
Latin
Equivalent		 Transitional
Alphabet		 Phoneme Name in
Romanian
? ?
A (Cyrillic)

A is the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It arose directly from the Greek letter Alpha . In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was "???" az and it had a numerical value of 1 ....
 		 1 a A a /a/ Az
? ?
Be (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Be|Image=...
 		 b ? ? /b/ Buche
? ?
Ve (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Ve|Image=...
 		 2 v ? ? /v/ Vede
? ?
Ge (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Ge|Image=...
 		 3 g, gh G g /g/ Glagol
? ?
De (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter De|Image=...
 		 4 d D d /d/ Dobru
? ?
Ukrainian Ye

eading=Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye|Image=...
, ? e
Ye (Cyrillic)

Ye, or E , is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It looks exactly like the Latin letter E. In Bulgarian language, Macedonian language, Serbian language, and Ukrainian language, it is called E, and represents the vowel or ....
 		 5 e E e /e/ Est
? ?
Zhe (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Zhe|Image=...
 		 j ? ? Juvete
? ?
Dze

eading=Cyrillic letter Dze|Image=...
 		 6 dz /dz/ Zalu
? ?
Ze (Cyrillic)

Ze is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant . It's easily confusable with the figure 3 . It can also be confused with the Russian letter E , which represents the vowel when it does not follow a soft consonant....
 		 7 z Z z /z/ Zemle
? ?
I (Cyrillic)

I or Y is a letter of almost all ancient and modern Cyrillic alphabets, representing typically , or . Small cursive Cyrillic ? looks like Latin u ....
 		 8 i I i /i/ Ije
? ?
Short I

Short I is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It is made of the Cyrillic I , with a breve.It is the eleventh letter in the Russian alphabet, and in Russian language is called ? ??????? ....
 		 i I i  
? ?
Ukrainian I

eading=Cyrillic letter Decimal I|Image=...
 		 10 i I i /i/ I
? ?
Ka (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Ka|Image=...
 		 20 c, ch K k /k/ Kaku
? ?
El (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter El|Image=...
 		 30 l L l /l/ Liude
? ?
Em (Cyrillic)

Em is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing a bilabial nasal consonant unless it is before a palatalization vowel when it represents . It is derived from the Greek letter mu ....
 		 40 m M m /m/ Mislete
N ?
N

N is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English language is spelled en ....
 		 50 n N n /n/ Nas
, ? o
O (Cyrillic)

O is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel word-initially and after hard consonants. In Russian language it may represent the sounds in unstressed positions, due to the phenomenon of akanye....
 		 70 o O o On
? ?
Pe (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Pe|Image=...
 		 80 p ? ? /p/ Pocoi
? ?
Er (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Er|Image=...
 		 100 r ? ? /r/ Râta
? ?
Es (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Es|Image=...
 		 200 s S s /s/ Slova
? ?
Te (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Te|Image=...
 		 300 t T t /t/ Tferdu
, ?? ??
Uk (Cyrillic)

Uk is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. It was originally a digraph of O and U or less frequently Izhitsa, a letterform called digraph uk....
 		 400 u /u/ Upsilon
, ?
Uk (Cyrillic)

Uk is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. It was originally a digraph of O and U or less frequently Izhitsa, a letterform called digraph uk....
 		 u /u/ Ucu
? ? 500 f F f /f/ Fârta
? ?
Kha

eading=Cyrillic letter Kha|Image=...
 		 600 h ? ? /h/ Heru
Omega (Cyrillic)

Bold text'Omega is a letter used in the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek omega .Unlike Greek language, the Slavic languages had only a single /o/ sound, so omega was little used compared to the ordinary letter O , ? ?, descended from Greek omicron....
 		 800 o O o /o/ Omega
? ? st ? ? Stea
? ?
Tse (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Tse|Image=...
 		 900 t ? ? Ti
? ?
Che (Cyrillic)

Che or Cha is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the Voiceless postalveolar affricate . In Russian there is a small number of words where che is pronounced as ....
 		 90 c (before e, i) ? ? Cervu
? ?
Sha

eading=Cyrillic letter Sha|Image=...
 		 s ? ? Sa
? ?
Yer

eading=Cyrillic letter Yer|Image=...
 		 a, u ? ? /?/ Ier
? ?
Yery

Yery or Yeru is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the phoneme after non-palatalized consonants in the Belarusian alphabet, Rusyn language#Alphabet and Russian alphabets....
 		 â, î, i, u Î î Ieri
? ?
Soft sign

The soft sign is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short front vowel but in modern Slavic Cyrillic writing systems , it does not represent an individual sound, rather it indicates softening of the preceding consonant or just has a traditional orthographic usage with no phonetic meaning ....
 		 a, u, i — —  
Yat

Yat or Jat is the name of the thirty-second letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet, or of the sound it represents. Its name in Old Church Slavonic is et? or iat? , in Bulgarian language yat or e dvoyno , in Russian language and Ukrainian language yat? , in Serbian language jat , Bosnian language, jat, Croatia...
 		 ea Ea ea /æ/ Eati(u)
? ?
Yu (Cyrillic)

Yu is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing either the combination or after a Palatalization consonant.Apart from the form I-O, in early Old Church Slavonic manuscripts the letter appears also in a mirrored form O-I ....
 		 iu Io / Iu
, IA
Ya (Cyrillic)

Ya is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, the civil script variant of Old Cyrillic . Among modern Slavonic languages it is used by Russian language, Belarusian language and Ukrainian language to represent both the combination in initial or post-vocalic position and after a palatalized consonant; in Bulgarian language it may represent or...
 		 ia Ia ia ia
, IE
E iotified

E iotified is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. It is a ligature of "?" and "?", representing iotated vowel sound /je/....
 		 ie Ie ie  
Yus

Little Yus and Big Yus , or Jus, are the Letter representing two Proto-Slavic language nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic alphabet and Glagolitic alphabets....
 		 ia, ea Ia ia, Ea ea Ia
Yus

Little Yus and Big Yus , or Jus, are the Letter representing two Proto-Slavic language nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic alphabet and Glagolitic alphabets....
 		 î Î î  
Ksi

Ksi is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek language letter Xi ....
 		 60 x Ks ks /ks/ Csi
Psi (Cyrillic)

Psi is a letter in the early Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Greek language letter Psi . It represents the sound /ps/, as in English naps....
 		 700 ps ?s ?s /ps/ Psi
Fita

Fita is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek language Theta. It was mainly used to write proper names derived from Greek....
 		 9 th, ft T t, Ft ft /t/ and approx.






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The Romanian Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic alphabet is a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by five Slavic languages national languages as well as non-Slavic . It is also used by many other languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and other languages in the past....
 was used to write Romanian language
Romanian language

Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova....
 before 1860–1862, when it was officially replaced by a Latin-based alphabet
Romanian alphabet

The Romanian alphabet is a modification of the Latin alphabet and consists of 31 letters:The letters Q , W , and Y were officially introduced in the Romanian alphabet in 1982, although they had been used earlier....
, although Cyrillic remained in occasional use until circa 1920. It is not the same as the Russian-based
Russian alphabet

The modern Russian alphabet is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. It was introduced into Kievan Rus' at the time of Vladimir I of Kiev's conversion to Christianity date....
 Moldovan alphabet
Moldovan alphabet

The Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet is a Cyrillic alphabet and developed for the Romanian language/Moldovan language in the Soviet Union in the 1930s....
 used in Moldavian ASSR
Moldavian ASSR

The Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , shortened to Moldavian ASSR or, less frequently, Moldovan ASSR, was an autonomous republic of the Ukrainian SSR between 12 October 1924 and 2 August 1940, encompassing modern Transnistria and a number of territories that are now part of Ukraine....
 since 1926, and then in the Moldavian SSR
Moldavian SSR

The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic , commonly abbreviated to Moldavian SSR or MSSR, was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union....
 between 1940 and 1989.

Between its discarding and the full adoption of the Latin alphabet, a so-called transitional alphabet, was in place for a few years (it combined Cyrillic and Latin letters, and included some of the Latin letters with diacritic
Diacritic

A diacritic is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. The term derives from the Greek language d?a???t???? ....
s which came to be used in Romanian spelling).

Table of correspondence


Letter Numerical
Value
Cyrillic numerals

Cyrillic numerals was a numbering system derived from the Cyrillic alphabet, used by South Slavs and East Slavs Slavic peoples. The system was used in Russia as late as the early 1700s when Peter I of Russia replaced it with the Arabic numeral system....
 Romanian
Latin
Equivalent		 Transitional
Alphabet		 Phoneme Name in
Romanian
? ?
A (Cyrillic)

A is the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It arose directly from the Greek letter Alpha . In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was "???" az and it had a numerical value of 1 ....
 		 1 a A a /a/ Az
? ?
Be (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Be|Image=...
 		 b ? ? /b/ Buche
? ?
Ve (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Ve|Image=...
 		 2 v ? ? /v/ Vede
? ?
Ge (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Ge|Image=...
 		 3 g, gh G g /g/ Glagol
? ?
De (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter De|Image=...
 		 4 d D d /d/ Dobru
? ?
Ukrainian Ye

eading=Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye|Image=...
, ? e
Ye (Cyrillic)

Ye, or E , is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It looks exactly like the Latin letter E. In Bulgarian language, Macedonian language, Serbian language, and Ukrainian language, it is called E, and represents the vowel or ....
 		 5 e E e /e/ Est
? ?
Zhe (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Zhe|Image=...
 		 j ? ? Juvete
? ?
Dze

eading=Cyrillic letter Dze|Image=...
 		 6 dz /dz/ Zalu
? ?
Ze (Cyrillic)

Ze is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant . It's easily confusable with the figure 3 . It can also be confused with the Russian letter E , which represents the vowel when it does not follow a soft consonant....
 		 7 z Z z /z/ Zemle
? ?
I (Cyrillic)

I or Y is a letter of almost all ancient and modern Cyrillic alphabets, representing typically , or . Small cursive Cyrillic ? looks like Latin u ....
 		 8 i I i /i/ Ije
? ?
Short I

Short I is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It is made of the Cyrillic I , with a breve.It is the eleventh letter in the Russian alphabet, and in Russian language is called ? ??????? ....
 		 i I i  
? ?
Ukrainian I

eading=Cyrillic letter Decimal I|Image=...
 		 10 i I i /i/ I
? ?
Ka (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Ka|Image=...
 		 20 c, ch K k /k/ Kaku
? ?
El (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter El|Image=...
 		 30 l L l /l/ Liude
? ?
Em (Cyrillic)

Em is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing a bilabial nasal consonant unless it is before a palatalization vowel when it represents . It is derived from the Greek letter mu ....
 		 40 m M m /m/ Mislete
N ?
N

N is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English language is spelled en ....
 		 50 n N n /n/ Nas
, ? o
O (Cyrillic)

O is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel word-initially and after hard consonants. In Russian language it may represent the sounds in unstressed positions, due to the phenomenon of akanye....
 		 70 o O o On
? ?
Pe (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Pe|Image=...
 		 80 p ? ? /p/ Pocoi
? ?
Er (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Er|Image=...
 		 100 r ? ? /r/ Râta
? ?
Es (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Es|Image=...
 		 200 s S s /s/ Slova
? ?
Te (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Te|Image=...
 		 300 t T t /t/ Tferdu
, ?? ??
Uk (Cyrillic)

Uk is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. It was originally a digraph of O and U or less frequently Izhitsa, a letterform called digraph uk....
 		 400 u /u/ Upsilon
, ?
Uk (Cyrillic)

Uk is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. It was originally a digraph of O and U or less frequently Izhitsa, a letterform called digraph uk....
 		 u /u/ Ucu
? ? 500 f F f /f/ Fârta
? ?
Kha

eading=Cyrillic letter Kha|Image=...
 		 600 h ? ? /h/ Heru
Omega (Cyrillic)

Bold text'Omega is a letter used in the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek omega .Unlike Greek language, the Slavic languages had only a single /o/ sound, so omega was little used compared to the ordinary letter O , ? ?, descended from Greek omicron....
 		 800 o O o /o/ Omega
? ? st ? ? Stea
? ?
Tse (Cyrillic)

eading=Cyrillic letter Tse|Image=...
 		 900 t ? ? Ti
? ?
Che (Cyrillic)

Che or Cha is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the Voiceless postalveolar affricate . In Russian there is a small number of words where che is pronounced as ....
 		 90 c (before e, i) ? ? Cervu
? ?
Sha

eading=Cyrillic letter Sha|Image=...
 		 s ? ? Sa
? ?
Yer

eading=Cyrillic letter Yer|Image=...
 		 a, u ? ? /?/ Ier
? ?
Yery

Yery or Yeru is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the phoneme after non-palatalized consonants in the Belarusian alphabet, Rusyn language#Alphabet and Russian alphabets....
 		 â, î, i, u Î î Ieri
? ?
Soft sign

The soft sign is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short front vowel but in modern Slavic Cyrillic writing systems , it does not represent an individual sound, rather it indicates softening of the preceding consonant or just has a traditional orthographic usage with no phonetic meaning ....
 		 a, u, i — —  
Yat

Yat or Jat is the name of the thirty-second letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet, or of the sound it represents. Its name in Old Church Slavonic is et? or iat? , in Bulgarian language yat or e dvoyno , in Russian language and Ukrainian language yat? , in Serbian language jat , Bosnian language, jat, Croatia...
 		 ea Ea ea /æ/ Eati(u)
? ?
Yu (Cyrillic)

Yu is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing either the combination or after a Palatalization consonant.Apart from the form I-O, in early Old Church Slavonic manuscripts the letter appears also in a mirrored form O-I ....
 		 iu Io / Iu
, IA
Ya (Cyrillic)

Ya is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, the civil script variant of Old Cyrillic . Among modern Slavonic languages it is used by Russian language, Belarusian language and Ukrainian language to represent both the combination in initial or post-vocalic position and after a palatalized consonant; in Bulgarian language it may represent or...
 		 ia Ia ia ia
, IE
E iotified

E iotified is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. It is a ligature of "?" and "?", representing iotated vowel sound /je/....
 		 ie Ie ie  
Yus

Little Yus and Big Yus , or Jus, are the Letter representing two Proto-Slavic language nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic alphabet and Glagolitic alphabets....
 		 ia, ea Ia ia, Ea ea Ia
Yus

Little Yus and Big Yus , or Jus, are the Letter representing two Proto-Slavic language nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic alphabet and Glagolitic alphabets....
 		 î Î î  
Ksi

Ksi is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek language letter Xi ....
 		 60 x Ks ks /ks/ Csi
Psi (Cyrillic)

Psi is a letter in the early Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Greek language letter Psi . It represents the sound /ps/, as in English naps....
 		 700 ps ?s ?s /ps/ Psi
Fita

Fita is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek language Theta. It was mainly used to write proper names derived from Greek....
 		 9 th, ft T t, Ft ft /t/ and approx. /?/ Thita
Izhitsa

Izhitsa is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. It was used to represent upsilon in words derived from Greek language, such as ????? . However, because it made the same sound /i/ as the normal letter ?, it was considered superfluous....
 		 400 i, u /i/, /y/, /v/  
? ?
Yn

Yn is an archaic Cyrillic letter that was used in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet which represented the sound of or . It is not used in modern writing....
 		 în îm În în Îm îm În
? ?
Dzhe

eading=Cyrillic letter Dzhe|Image=...
 		 g (before e, i) ? ? Gea


See also

  • Early Cyrillic alphabet
    Early Cyrillic alphabet

    The old Cyrillic alphabet was a writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire in the tenth century to write the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language....
  • Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet
  • Romanian alphabet
    Romanian alphabet

    The Romanian alphabet is a modification of the Latin alphabet and consists of 31 letters:The letters Q , W , and Y were officially introduced in the Romanian alphabet in 1982, although they had been used earlier....