Whisper frequently to make them yours by this repetition in order to write and live according to laws of God."Ģ.
Evil lives on Earth eternally, and each person must think of repentance, with speech and word making firm in their mind the faith in Christ and the Kingdom of God. "Knowing all these letters renders speech a virtue.
Zhivyet zlo (na) zyemlye vyechno i kazhdomu lyudinu myslit' nado o pokayaniyi, ryech'yu (i) slovom tverdit' uchyeniye vyery Khristovoy (v) Tsarstviye Bozhiye, chashchye sheptat', shchtob (vsye bukvy) (vz)yatiyem etim usvoyit' i po zakonam bozh'im stremit'sya pisat' slova i zhit"' "A(v)sye bukvy vyedaya glagolit' - dobro yest'. "'Transcribed into English language Roman letters is: The last line contains only one translatable word - "червь" ("worm"), which, however, was not included in the "translation".Īnother version of "the message", incorporating the letters phased out by mid-1750s, reads: For example, "покой" ("rest" or "apartment") doesn't mean "the Universe", and "ферт" doesn't have any meaning in Russian or other Slavonic languages (there are no words of Slavonic origin beginning with "f" at all). In this attempt words only in two first lines somewhat correspond to real meanings of the letters' names, while "translations" in other lines seem to be fabrications or fantasies. Here is one such attempt to "decode" the message: But since the names of the first letters of the Slavonic alphabet seem to form text, attempts were made to compose sensible text from all letters of the alphabet. are separate words, chosen just for their initial sound". The great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin wrote: "The letters constituting the Slavonic alphabet do not produce any sense. They are given here in the pre-1918 orthography of the post-1708 civil alphabet. Until approximately 1900, mnemonic names inherited from Church Slavonic were used for the letters. Letter Л, л in modern Russian is commonly called "эл", "эль" is also used but is considered a little obsolete.ġ. The transcriptions of the names of the letters attempt to reflect the reduction of non-stressed vowels. The consonant letters represent both “hard” and “soft” ( palatalised, represented in the IPA with a ) phonemes, depending (with some exceptions) on whether the iotated or softening vowel letters follow. Letter Ж, ж (zh) has more variants of writing than any other Russian letter. The Russian alphabet is as follows: Listen|filename=russian_alphabet.ogg|title=Russian alphabet.|description=(Listen to Russian alphabet)|format= Ogg Handwritten Russian letters can look significantly different. The alphabet as shown here is the printed form. It was introduced into Kievan Rus' at the time of Vladimir the Great's conversion to Christianity (988), or, if certain archeological finds are correctly dated, at a slightly earlier date. The modern Russian alphabet is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet.