Initially an old variant of the Bulgarian alphabet, it became used in the Kievan Rusʹ since the 10th century to write what would become the modern Russian language. It comes from the Cyrillic script, which was devised in the 9th century for the first Slavic literary language, Old Slavonic. The Russian alphabet ( ру́сский алфави́т, russkiy alfavit, or ру́сская а́збука, russkaya azbuka, more traditionally) is the script used to write the Russian language. For the distinction between, / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.
For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
