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Example sentences for: cyrillic

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He was, however, taught the Cyrillic alphabet and could transcribe signs.
But whereas the changes wrought in French by the French Revolution were canceled by the Thermidorean reaction, in the newly formed and freshly named Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (more commonly called the USSR or, in Cyrillic, CCCP ) wholesale changes of toponyms, following changes of personal names, did not really set in till the Soviet Thermidor brought Stalin to dictatorial power.
The reason for this variation is that when the Cyrillic letter that represents our English v -sound is final in a word, as in the nominative case for Gorbachev , it is unvoiced and sounds like f (or ff for good measure); when an inflectional ending is added, as in Gorbacheva (the genitive case), that same letter is voiced, like v .
Then, too, the OED does not always transliterate foreign scripts, which might put those who cannot read Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic, Thai, etc., at a disadvantage when examining cognates or loanwords.
Ossetic has specific designations for eyebrows and eyelashes ( ærphÿg and tsæstÿxau , respectively, as transcribed from Cyrillic).