Russians use an alphabet based on the Cyrillic script. The modern Russian alphabet has 33 letters: 21 consonants, ten vowels and two signs. Yet it wasn’t always like that.

The scripts in widest use today—Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic—are all at least a thousand years old, and they each evolved from earlier alphabets. Creating a new script and ...

The letters in alphabets, in contrast, represent distinct sounds, or "phonemes," that are used to make up the sounds of a spoken word, Steele said in an email.

After almost 80 years with an alphabet imposed by Moscow, Kazakhstan is getting its own script and possibly a new name. President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed off on the new, much shorter set ...

Khmer: អក្សរខ្មែរ Once we're east of Myanmar, we move from the alphabets with lots of circles to the ones with hooks or rings on their ends. The script for Khmer, the national ...

A final draft of the Latin-based Uzbek alphabet -- with 29 letters and an apostrophe to denote a hard sign, specific sounds, or intonations -- was presented in 2019. Kazakhstan is set to complete ...