The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets by Campbell George L; Moseley Christopher;

Author:Campbell, George L; Moseley, Christopher;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

One extremely important feature of the Russian vowel system is not reflected in the script. This is the extensive reductionism which affects all unstressed vowels except /u/. In particular, unstressed /o/ tends to become [a]: this phenomenon is known as akanye. Where two or more unstressed vowels (not /u/) precede the tonic stress, the reductionist process is graduated through more than one stage of the secondary vowel inventory. This is particularly evident in the case of /o/: xorosho /xərʌʃɔ’/ ‘well, good’; golova /gəlʌvá/ ‘head’.

The five East and South Slav nations which are in communion with the Greek Orthodox Church use the Cyrillic script in differing versions. The inventories are shown in the following pages. Note these features:

Ukrainian lacks the ё, ъ, ы and э of Russian but has i /i/, ï /ji/ and Є /je/. E is assigned the value /e/.

Belarussian lacks the и of Russian but has i /i/ and ў /w/.

Serbian: the 1818 dictionary of Vuk Stefan Karadžić introduced an adapted Cyrillic, including the following new letters: Ћ ћ (Croatian ć), Џ џ (Croatian dž), Ђ ђ (Croatian đ), Љ љ (Croatian lj), Њ њ (Croatian nj). (Exact transliteration between the Cyrillic and Roman alphabets is thus possible.)

Bulgarian lacks the ё, ы and э of Russian, but ъ has the value of the characteristic Bulgarian phoneme /ə/.

Macedonian differs from both Serbian and Bulgarian in having these additions: Ѓ /dj/, j /j/, љ /lj/, њ /nj/, ќ /tj/, /dž/ џ /dz/.

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