


The soft (palatalization) sign after Ж, Ш, Ч and Щ does not affect their pronunciation.А is pronounced when stressed, and or in unstressed syllables.During the Soviet era knowledge of the Russian language was wide spread though the subjects authors could write about were restricted. Russian literature started to flower during the 19th century when Tolstoi, Dostoyevskii, Gogol and Pushkin were active. The dialect of Moscow was used as the basis for written Russian. Peter I) (1672-1725) who introduced a revised alphabet and encouraged authors to use a literary style closer to their spoken language. Russian started appearing in writing regularly during the reign of Peter the Great (a.k.a. There are also some texts in Finnish, Latin and Greek. The main languages written on them in an early version of the Cyrillic alphabet were Old Russian and Old Church Slavonic.

The earliest known writing in Russia dates from the 10th century and was found at Novgorod. Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and many other countries and territories. Status: official language in Russian, Belarus,.Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Moldova, Romania, Finland, Norway,Īrmenia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, etc. Spoken in: Russian, Belarus, Kazakhstan,.Language family: Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, Slavic, East Slavic.
