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Example sentences for: cyrillic

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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.
Today only the Cyrillic alphabet may be used, and new language edicts dictate which words are acceptable and which are taboo.
It is important, too, to note that writing systems are irrelevant: for instance, Polish is written (today) using the Roman alphabet, but Russian, a related Slavic language, uses the Cyrillic; Yiddish, a Germanic language, is written in Hebrew characters; Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, which resemble one another rather closely in some respects, all use different alphabets; and early examples, utterly unrecognizable to untrained readers of modern languages, were written in cuneiform, quite suitable for writing on soft clay tablets with a pointed stylus, and hieroglyphics.
\' Us” use a child's reversal of the letter R. Similarly, the title of the movie The \?\ussians Are Coming, The \?\ussians Are Coming , which plays games with a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet (which is not an r).
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 .