Russian language introduction

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Russian is the national language of the Russian people and the official language of the former Soviet Union and the current Russian Federation. It belongs to the Eastern branch of the Slavic language family of the Indo-European language family. There are more than 140 million native speakers of Russian around the world, and nearly 45 million speakers as a second language. 　　ninth century * * When Eastern Christianity was introduced to Kievan Rus, it brought with it the Cyril alphabet, which became the beginning of today's Russian alphabet. In 1708, Peter the Great simplified the letters used by the original sects into "civil letters" that were easy to write, and abolished some redundant letters. In 1917, the Soviet government abolished four redundant letters, and in 1934 added the letters created by Karamzin in the 18th century, so that the current Russian alphabet contains thirty-three uppercase and lowercase letters. There are ten vowel (vowel) letters, twenty-one consonant (consonant) letters, and two silent letters that are silent and used as soft and hard phonetic symbols. 　　Russian letters are divided into printed and written letters. Printed letters are used for printing books, newspapers and periodicals. Most people use written letters when writing. It is rare to write printed letters by hand, which is somewhat different from the situation in English. 　　Modern Russian is basically divided into two major dialect areas: There are Northern Russian dialect areas and Southern Russian dialect areas, and in the middle of the two dialect areas there is a mixed Sino-Russian dialect area. The standard language is based on Moscow language in the Sino-Russian dialect area and has forty-two phonemes, including six vowels (vowels) and thirty-six consonants (consonants). Consonants are divided into voiced and voiceless, soft and hard phonemes, and vowels are weakened in unstressed syllables. This post was last edited by Qing Mingcup on 2009-4-2 15:13 ]