Cyrillic digraphs
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cyrillic-digraphs-286-5425594
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Cyrillic digraphs
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The Cyrillic script family contains many specially treated two-letter combinations, or digraphs, but few of these are used in Slavic languages. In a few alphabets, trigraphs and even the occasional tetragraph or pentagraph are used. In early Cyrillic, the digraphs ⟨оу⟩ and ⟨оѵ⟩ were used for. As with the equivalent digraph in Greek, they were reduced to a typographic ligature, ⟨ꙋ⟩, and are now written ⟨у⟩. The modern letters ⟨ы⟩ and ⟨ю⟩ started out as digraphs, ⟨ъі⟩ and ⟨іо⟩. In Church Slavonic
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Overview of digraphs in the Cyrillic script
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2024-04-12T04:19:06Z
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