The Cyrillic alphabet, the script of Russians (and others), is one of the most widely used systems of writing in the world.

An alphabet is a collection of letter symbols that have been more or less standardized, and which often – though not always – reflect all of the sounds made in a particular language.

As a result of the reform, the Russian alphabet acquired its modern form, which has 33 letters that Russians use up to this day. Click here to read about Russia’s life-changing reforms.

THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six cha… ...

Why is “A” the first letter of our alphabet? Therein lies a “tail.”The ancient Phoenicians, who devised the precursor of our English alphabet about 3,000 years ago, depended heavily on ...