Show alphabet. The number of letters in the alphabets of different peoples
Hello dear guys! Greetings, dear adults! You are reading these lines, which means that someone once made sure that we could exchange information with the help of writing.
Drawing rock carvings, trying to tell something, our ancestors many centuries ago could not even think that very soon 33 letters of the Russian alphabet would add up to words, express our thoughts on paper, help read books written in Russian and allow you to leave your mark on history of folk culture.
And where did they all come to us from A to Z, who invented the Russian alphabet, and how did the letter come about? The information in this article may be useful for research work in the 2nd or 3rd grade, so welcome to study in detail!
Lesson plan:
What is the alphabet and how did it all begin?
The word familiar to us from childhood came from Greece, and it is composed of two Greek letters - alpha and beta.
In general, the ancient Greeks left a huge mark on history, and they could not do without them here. They put a lot of effort into spreading writing throughout Europe.
However, many scientists are still arguing who would be the first, and in what year it was. It is believed that the Phoenicians were the first to use consonants as early as the 2nd millennium BC, and only then the Greeks borrowed the alphabet from them and added vowels there. This was already in the 8th century BC.
Such Greek writing became the basis of the alphabet for many peoples, including our Slavs. And among the most ancient are the Chinese and Egyptian alphabets, which appeared from the transformation of rock paintings into hieroglyphs and graphic symbols.
But what about our Slavic alphabet? We don't write in Greek today! The thing is that Ancient Russia sought to strengthen economic and cultural ties with other countries, and for this a letter was needed. Moreover, the first church books began to be brought to the Russian state, since Christianity came from Europe.
It was necessary to find a way to convey to all Russian Slavs what Orthodoxy is, to create their own alphabet, to translate church works into a readable language. The Cyrillic alphabet became such an alphabet, and it was created by the brothers, popularly referred to as "Thessalonica".
Who are the Thessaloniki brothers and what are they famous for?
These people are named so not by the fact that they have a surname or a given name.
Two brothers Cyril and Methodius lived in a military family in a large Byzantine province with the capital in the city of Thessalonica, from this name of their small homeland the nickname came.
The population in the city was mixed - half Greeks and half Slavs. Yes, and the parents of the brothers were of different nationalities: the mother is Greek, and the father is from Bulgaria. Therefore, both Cyril and Methodius knew two languages from childhood - Slavic and Greek.
It is interesting! In fact, the names of the brothers at birth were different - Konstantin and Michael, and they were named church Cyril and Methodius later.
Both brothers excelled in their studies. Methodius mastered military techniques and was very fond of reading. Well, Cyril knew as many as 22 languages, was educated at the imperial court and was nicknamed a philosopher for his wisdom.
Therefore, it is not at all surprising that the choice fell on these two brothers, when the Moravian prince turned to the Byzantine ruler in 863 for help with a request to send wise men who could convey the truth of the Christian faith to the Slavic people and teach them how to write.
And Cyril and Methodius set off on a long journey, moving for 40 months from one place to another, explaining in the Slavic language well known to them from childhood, who Christ is and what is his power. And for this it was necessary to translate all church books from Greek into Slavonic, which is why the brothers began to develop a new alphabet.
Of course, already in those days, the Slavs in their lives used many Greek letters in counting and writing. But the knowledge they had had to be streamlined, brought to one system, so that it would be simple and understandable for everyone. And already on May 24, 863, in the Bulgarian capital Pliska, Cyril and Methodius announced the creation of the Slavic alphabet called Cyrillic, which became the progenitor of our modern Russian alphabet.
It is interesting! Historians have discovered the fact that even before the Moravian commission, while in Byzantium, the brothers Cyril and Methodius invented an alphabet for the Slavs based on Greek writing, and it was called Glagolitic. Maybe that's why the Cyrillic alphabet appeared so quickly and simply, since there were already working outlines?
Transformations of the Russian alphabet
The Slavic alphabet created by Cyril and Methodius consisted of 43 letters.
They appeared by adding to the Greek alphabet (and it had 24 letters) newly invented 19 characters. After the appearance of the Cyrillic alphabet in Bulgaria, the center of Slavic writing, the first book school appeared, and liturgical books began to be actively translated.
In any old book
“Izhitsa lived in the world,
And with it the letter Yat "
Gradually, the Old Slavonic alphabet comes to Serbia, and in Ancient Russia it appears at the end of the 10th century, when the Russian people accept Christianity. It was then that the whole long process of creating and improving the Russian alphabet, which we use today, begins. That's what was interesting.
It is interesting! The godmother of the letter "Yo" was Princess Ekaterina Dashkova, who proposed introducing it into the alphabet in 1783. The idea of the princess was supported by the writer Karmazin, and now, with their light hand, the letter appeared in the alphabet, taking the honorable seventh place.
The fate of "Yo" is not easy:
- in 1904 its use was desirable, but not at all obligatory;
- in 1942, by order of the educational authority, it was recognized as compulsory for the school;
- in 1956, whole paragraphs of the rules of Russian spelling were devoted to her.
Today, the use of "Yo" is important when you can confuse the meaning of written words, for example here: perfect and perfect, tears and tears, sky and sky.
It is interesting! In 2001, the world's only monument to the letter "Yo" in the form of a low stele was opened in the Ulyanovsk Karamzin Square.
As a result, today we have 33 beauties who teach us to read and write, open up a new world for us, help us to be educated in order to learn our native language and respect our history.
I am sure that you have known all these 33 letters for a long time and never confuse them in places in the alphabet. Wouldn't you like to try to learn the Old Slavonic alphabet too? Here it is, below in the video)
Well, there are more projects on one interesting topic in your piggy bank. Share the most interesting with classmates, let them also know where the Russian alphabet came from. And I say goodbye to you, until we meet again!
Success in your studies!
Evgenia Klimkovich.
The alphabet of the Russian language has a long history. And although this is a well-known truth, few people know who and when invented it.
Where did the Russian alphabet come from
The history of the Russian alphabet plunges into deep antiquity, during the times of pagan Kievan Rus.
The command to create the Russian alphabet came from Emperor Michael III of Byzantium, who instructed the monk brothers to develop the letters of the Russian alphabet, later called Cyrillic. This happened in 863.
The Cyrillic alphabet went back to the Greek script, but since Cyril and Methodius came from Bulgaria, this land becomes the center for the spread of literacy and writing. Church Greek and Latin books began to be translated into Old Church Slavonic. After several centuries, it became exclusively the language of the church, but played an important role in the development of the modern Russian language. Many consonants and vowels have not survived to this day, since this Russian alphabet has undergone many changes. The main transformations affected the alphabet during the time of Peter the Great and during the October Revolution.
How many letters are in the alphabet?
However, it is interesting not only who invented the Russian alphabet, but also how many letters it contains. Most people, even in adulthood, doubt how many there are: 32 or 33. And what can we say about children! There is every reason for this. Let's dive into history.
There were 43 letters in the Old Slavonic alphabet (in the form in which it has come down to us in written sources). Subsequently, 4 more letters were added, and 14 were removed, since the sounds they denoted ceased to be pronounced or merged with similar ones. In the 19th century, the Russian historian and writer N. Karamzin introduced the letter "yo" into the alphabet.
For a long time, "E" and "Yo" were considered one letter, so it was customary to think that there were 32 letters in the alphabet.
Only after 1942 they were separated, and the alphabet became 33 letters.
The alphabet of the Russian language in its current form is divided into vowels and consonants.
We pronounce vowels freely: the sound passes through the vocal cords without obstacles.
Consonant sounds for their creation require obstacles on the way. In modern Russian, these letters and sounds are in the following ratio, while the number of sounds and letters will be different:
- - sounds: vowels - 6, consonants - 37;
- - letters: vowels - 10, consonants - 21.
If you do not go into details and say briefly, this is due to the fact that some vowels (e, e, u, i) can mean two sounds, and consonants have pairs of hardness-softness.
By spelling, uppercase and lowercase letters are distinguished:
Their writing is associated with the need to highlight proper and common nouns in the text (capitals are used for the latter, as well as for writing words in general).
Learning the order of letters
Even if your child knows what the letters are called, closer to school age, the problem arises that you need to memorize the letters in order in the alphabet. Most children confuse letters for a long time and cannot put them in the right order. Although helping a child is very simple. There are several ways to do this.
Photos and pictures for babies
Pictures and photos with letters can help you learn the alphabet. You can download them on our website, print, stick on thick cardboard and engage with your child.
What can be useful pictures and photos attached to the designations of letters?
Beautiful design, bright colors will surely attract the attention of kids. Children are interested in everything unusual, colorful - and learning goes faster and more exciting. The Russian alphabet and pictures will become best friends in the lessons for kids.
Russian alphabet in pictures for children. 
Table with cards of the Russian alphabet. Another option is a table of letters with numbers, numbers
It is also easy to download and print it on the site. A numbered list of letters for children can make it much easier for those who can count to learn the order of the alphabet. So the guys remember firmly how many letters are in the alphabet, and the accompanying photos and pictures that the table includes help build an associative array. So someone came up with a great idea - to learn the alphabet with pictures and photos.
Russian alphabet with letter numbering. Educational cartoons
No one will argue with the fact that all children love cartoons. But after all, this love can be put to good use and learn the alphabet with the help of specially created educational cartoons. They include excerpts from Soviet cartoons, bright designations of letters, pictures, songs. Musical accompaniment makes children hum and rhyme the alphabet, and this way it is remembered much faster.
— "Alphabet in cartoons"
You can watch this cartoon here:
This is a great video tutorial for kids. There is not only writing and reading letters, but also excerpts from cartoons, images of what words mean for a particular letter, etc. The kid will have no choice but to memorize the song and the order of the letters.
- "Learning letters: the alphabet in verse"
You can watch this cartoon here:
In addition to colorful cartoons, melodic musical accompaniment, the cartoon "Learning letters: the alphabet in verse" offers simple verses that are easy to remember and tell the kid which letter in the alphabet is next.
- "ABC for kids" studio Berg Sound
This is a great cartoon for those children who are already familiar with the alphabet and are trying to read. Here we learn the alphabet and the rules for writing words with the Computer and its assistant File. They tell the kids, using the example of words, how to read, and what place the letters occupy in the alphabet, as well as how many letters are in the Russian alphabet. This is a fascinating cartoon designed for 30-40 minutes, so you have to be patient. But for children, it will not be needed: the material is presented in a playful way, and the children do not get bored.
You can see the cartoon here
- "Learning letters with the cat Busya"
You can download the cartoon here
The main character is the cat Busya, who came out of the illustrated primer to show the children how the letters look and read. The cartoon has not only colorful drawings, but also musical accompaniment. Cat Busya reads short poems dedicated to a single letter.
- "Learning the Russian alphabet"
It will be easy to watch this cartoon here
It is a viewing of an illustrated primer, and a male voice pleasantly and slowly reads small poems dedicated to letters.
Thus, learning the alphabet should be interesting for children, then they will quickly and easily master the material. Learning in a fun and non-intrusive way
It is not always possible to find even the simplest things on the Internet, with regards to the numbering of the alphabet, the same thing.
The serial numbers of the letters, you can see in the table below, the correct order and correspondence of the serial number.
The letter A comes first.
The letter B is in second place.
The letter B is in third place.
The letter G is in fourth place.
The letter D is in fifth place.
The letter E is in sixth place.
The letter is in seventh place.
The letter J is in eighth place.
The letter Z is in ninth place.
The letter I is in tenth place.
The letter Y is in eleventh place.
The letter K is in twelfth place.
The letter L is in thirteenth place.
The letter M is in the fourteenth place.
The letter H is in fifteenth place.
The letter O is in sixteenth place.
The letter P is in seventeenth place.
The letter R is in eighteenth place.
The letter C is in nineteenth place.
The letter T is in twentieth place.
The letter U is in twenty-first place.
The letter F is in twenty-second place.
The letter X is in twenty-third place.
The letter C is in twenty-fourth place.
The letter H is in twenty-fifth place.
The letter W is in twenty-sixth place.
The letter Щ is in twenty-seventh place.
The letter b is in twenty-eighth place.
The letter Y is in twenty-ninth place.
The letter b is in the thirtieth place.
The letter E is in thirty-first place.
The letter Yu is in thirty-second place.
The letter I is in thirty-third place.
There are 33 letters in the Russian alphabet. Probably everyone knows this. And the serial number of the letter can be useful to solve some riddle, charade or read an encrypted letter.
Ordinal number of letters in the Russian alphabet.
- A - number 1 ,
- B - number 2 ,
- B - number 3 ,
- G - number 4 ,
- D - number 5 ,
- E - number 6 ,
- - 7 (some people forget that e and are still different letters, they should not be confused),
- F - 8,
- Z - 9,
- I - 10,
- Y - 11,
- K - 12,
- L - 13,
- M - 14,
- H - 15,
- O - 16,
- P - 17,
- R - 18,
- C - 19,
- T - 20,
- U - 21,
- F - 22,
- X - 23,
- C - 24,
- Ch - 25,
- Sh - 26,
- Shch - 27,
- b (solid sign) - 28,
- Y - 29,
- b (soft sign) - 30,
- E - 31,
- Yu - 32,
- I am 33.
Russian alphabet in reverse order looks like this (first comes the serial number, and after the number the letter itself)
- 33 - A,
- 32 - B,
- 31 -B,
- 30 - G,
- 29 - D,
- 2 - E,
- 27 - ,
- 26 -F,
- 25 - Z,
- 24 - And,
- 23 - th,
- 22 - K,
- 21 - L,
- 20 - M,
- 19 - H,
- 18 - Oh
- 17 - P,
- 16 - R,
- 15 - C,
- 14 - T,
- 13 - U,
- 12 - F,
- 11 - X,
- 10 - C,
- 9 - H,
- 8 - W,
- 7 -Sch,
- 6 - b,
- 5 - S,
- 4 - b,
- 3 - E,
- 2 - Yu,
- 1 -I.
The letter A serial number-1
B-serial number-2
B-serial number-3
The letter E has number 6
The letter has serial number 7
F- number 8
Letter Z-number 9
I- has serial number 10
E girlfriend Y- number 11
K-12 in a row
Letter L-13
We count the letter H as 15 in a row
16 is the letter O
b-28 letter of the alphabet
A a a serial number 1
B b be ordinal number 2
V v ve ordinal digit 3
G g ge serial number 4
D d de serial number 5
E e ordinal digit 6
ordinal 7
Well well ordinal number 8
Z z ze serial number 9
And and and ordinal number 10
th and short ordinal number 11
K to ka (not ke) ordinal number 12
L l el (or el, not le) ordinal number 13
M m em (not me) ordinal number 14
N n en (not ne) ordinal number 15
O o o ordinal number 16
P p pe ordinal number 17
R p er (not re) ordinal number 18
S with es (not se) ordinal number 19
T te ordinal number 20
y y ordinal number 21
F f ef (not fe) ordinal number 22
X x ha (not he) ordinal number 23
Ts tse ordinal number 24
H h th ordinal number 25
Sh sh sha (not she) ordinal number 26
Щ shcha (not yet) ordinal number 27
Ъ ъ solid sign ordinal number 28
S s s ordinal number 29
b b soft sign ordinal number 30
E e e (e negotiable) ordinal number 31
Yu Yu Yu Ordinal Number 32
I am I ordinal number 33
It is useful to know the serial numbers of the letters of the Russian alphabet, it is not bad to know the reverse numbering of letters, it is also sometimes required to know the numbering of pairs of letters that are equally distant from the ends of the alphabet. This knowledge can help in solving various kinds of logical problems.
So, the Russian alphabet is numbered in order:
Alphabet in reverse order:
Pairs of letters equally distant from the ends of the alphabet:
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fourth
The letter Dd will be 5
Her letter will be 6
The letter will be 7
The eighth, ninth and tenth are the letters Zh, Z, I
Eleventh letter
twelfth letter
To record sounding speech, letters are required. There are 33 letters in modern Russian that make up the Russian alphabet. All the necessary information about the alphabet is presented in our article.
Short story
Who created the Russian alphabet? The question is not so obvious. Indeed, over the antiquity of years, a lot of changes have been made to it, many reforms have been carried out.
In Russia, the alphabet - Cyrillic - appeared in connection with the adoption of Christianity, and it was required primarily in the church. Each letter had a different name (for example, a - az, b - beeches, c - lead, etc.) The numbers were also indicated by letters. Written without spaces or punctuation marks. Long and well-known words were written in abbreviated form, putting a special sign over them - a title. To make it easier for the monks who were taught to read to memorize the alphabet in order, they were offered to memorize a special prayer ("alphabet"), where each line began with a letter in alphabetical order (the first - in az, the second - in beeches, etc.).
There is no doubt that the creators of the first Slavic alphabet are Saints Cyril and Methodius. But what is the first alphabet? There is an opinion that Cyril created the Glagolitic alphabet, and the Cyrillic alphabet, which is the basis of the modern alphabet, is the creation of a student of St. Cyril, Clement of Ohrid.
Many reforms of the Russian alphabet were intended to bring it closer to what sounds are actually still used in speech. Therefore, the letters Ѯ, Ѱ, Ѳ, V and several others disappeared.
Oral speech is primary, so the alphabet is designed to reflect its phonetic composition.
Letters of the Russian alphabet
The basis of the Russian, as well as the Latin, alphabet was Greek. Many letters are very similar now. For example, β - in, π - p, etc. However, the sound composition of the Greek language differs from the Slavic. Therefore, Cyril and Methodius slightly increased the number of letters, striving to ensure that the alphabet had signs for all vowels and consonants. We do not have to resort to the use of special icons or write 2-3 letters to convey one sound.
Learning the alphabet
Letters in Russian, as in any other alphabet, are arranged in a certain order. Naturally, it is random. So is it necessary to memorize the Russian alphabet in order? Of course you do! After all, it is in this sequence that the words in the dictionary and the names of the children in the school magazine, books in the library and articles in the encyclopedia are located - any elements of any list. Of course, the alphabet is usually given at the beginning of the dictionary for those who could not remember it, but it is always better to know for yourself than to rely on a hint.
Learning the alphabet is easy. The alphabet of the Russian language for children in the form of a poster with colorful pictures can be bought at any store for schoolchildren. There are many poems and songs for memorizing the alphabet in order. For foreigners studying Russian, a transcription table of the Russian alphabet can be useful, which offers not only the outline of letters, but also their pronunciation.
What have we learned?
From the article, we learned that the basis of the Russian alphabet is its Greek counterpart. We learned by whom and when the alphabet was invented. They answered the question why in everyday life to know the order of the letters in the alphabet.
Emperor Michael III streamlined the script for the Slavic language. After the appearance of the Cyrillic alphabet, which goes back to the Greek statutory (solemn) letter, the activity of the Bulgarian school of scribes develops (after Cyril and Methodius). Bulgaria becomes the center for the dissemination of Slavic writing. Here the first Slavic book school is being created - Preslav book school, in which Cyrillic and Methodius originals of liturgical books (Gospel, Psalter, Apostle, church services) are copied, new Slavic translations from Greek are made, original works in Old Church Slavonic appear (“On the Writings of Chrnorizets the Brave”). Later, Old Church Slavonic penetrates into Serbia, and at the end of the 10th century becomes the language of the church in Kievan Rus.Old Church Slavonic, being the language of the church, was influenced by the Old Russian language. It was an Old Church Slavonic language with elements of living East Slavic speech. Thus, the modern Russian alphabet originated from the Cyrillic alphabet of the Old Slavonic language, which was borrowed from the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet and became widespread in Kievan Rus.
Later, 4 new letters were added, and 14 old ones were excluded at different times as unnecessary, since the corresponding sounds disappeared. The iotized yus (Ѩ, Ѭ) disappeared first of all, then the big yus (Ѫ), which returned in the 15th century, but disappeared again at the beginning of the 17th century [ ], and iotized E (Ѥ); the rest of the letters, sometimes slightly changing their meaning and form, have survived to this day as part of the alphabet of the Church Slavonic language, which for a long time was mistakenly considered identical with the Russian alphabet. Spelling reforms of the second half of the 17th century (associated with the “correction of books” under Patriarch Nikon) fixed the following set of letters: A, B, C, D, D, E (with a spellingly different version of Є, which was sometimes considered a separate letter and was put in the alphabet on place of the current E, that is, after Ѣ), Zh, S, Z, I (with a spellingly different version of Y for the sound [j], which was not considered a separate letter), I, K, L, M, N, O (in two orthographically different styles: “narrow” and “wide”), П, Р, С, Т, У (in two orthographically different styles: ), Ф, Х, Ѡ (in two orthographically different styles: “narrow” and “wide” , and also as part of the ligature "from" (Ѿ), usually considered a separate letter), C, H, W, SC, b, Y, b, Ѣ, Yu, I (in two styles: Ꙗ and Ѧ, which were sometimes considered different letters, sometimes not), Ѯ, Ѱ, Ѳ, V. Sometimes the alphabet also included a big yus (Ѫ) and the so-called "ik" (in the form of the current letter "y"), although they had no sound meaning and were not used in any word.
In this form, the Russian alphabet remained until the reforms of Peter I in 1708-1711 (and the Church Slavonic is still the same), when superscripts were abolished (which, incidentally, “cancelled” the letter Y) and many doublet letters were abolished,
Oh yes, I remembered the lower grades when we wrote encryption, we used a digital system and put one letter in order, and the other against the order, by the way, the letter P it is the same in the account and back and forth it is the seventeenth - once I knew all this by heart and knew how to write ciphers quickly enough.
There are 33 letters in the Russian alphabet. Each letter has its own number. The distribution is based on the principle A - 1 letter of the alphabet, B - 2 letters of the alphabet, etc. to the last letter - I, which is 33 in a row.
It would seem, well, why would anyone need to know the serial numbers of letters in the alphabet of the Russian language? Probably, those who have passed tests to determine the IQ know that you need to know this in order to successfully cope with the tasks of the tests. There may be not one, or two, but many more such tasks in the test. For example, in this test there are five such tasks out of forty.
Here, for example, is the very first task of the test and the last fifth:
The alphabet is shown below in the figure, which shows which letter of the 33 letters of the Russian alphabet has which serial number. The first digit is a forward count, the second digit is a reverse count. In this form, the numbering and the alphabet itself are easier to remember than a list.
There are only 33 letters in the Russian alphabet:
