russian vs. cyrillic?

Question

people dont use the russian alphabate anymore usually do they? they all use the cyrillic correct? i need to know because i am buying keybored stickers for my computer and i need to know what set i should get russian or cyrillic?

Answer 1

The Russian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic alphabet. But there are different modifications of Cyrillic used in Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and probably a few other countries. Probably Russian and Cyrillic will be the same for keyboard stickers, but I'm not sure. You should probably check with whoever you are buying from.

Answer 2

It's like saying, 'they don't use English alphabet any more, they all use Latin, correct?' It depends on who you are talking about.

Several languages (mostly Slavic, including Russian) are based on the Cyrillic alphabet.

If you are going to type in Russian only, buy yourself Russian stickers and that's it. If other locales are used, consider buying a generic Cyrillic sticker sheet with extra characters for other Cyrillic alphabets like Ukrainian, Belorussian, Kazakh etc (according to what I've noticed on the photos). Note the total number of characters for Russian and Cyrillic keyboards (44 and 55 accordingly).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet

Answer 3

Russian = Cyrillic < == > Cyrillic = Russian



a useful phrase for a shop assistant:

"please, give me the keyboard stickers with Russian font"



usually look like English letters are black and upside

Russian letters are red and downside



in case you need to check the stickers

there will be an English "Z" and Russian letter which looks like a reversed English R

Russian font => Я

Answer 4

If you are looking at getting keyboard stickers you will need to specify which Cyrillic keyboard you want. Just as keyboards differ using our alphabet (English UK, English US, German, French, etc...) they will differ between Russian, Ukrainian, and other languages that use a subset of the Cyrillic alphabet.



I doubt there are any listed as just "Cyrillic". It would be like a Russian ordering English language stickers. Which one? UK? US? Australia? etc..

Answer 5

Um...

The Russian alphabet is made of Cyrillic characters.

The keyboard (and the encoding) are called Cyrillic. The language is Russian.

So, yes, Cyrillic

Answer 6

The Cyrillic alphabet IS the Russian alphabet.

Answer 7

The cyrillic alphabet is the same as the russian alphabet.



Russian alphabet is onother name for the cyrillic.



Just like the alphabet im using now is called the latin alpahbet but we call it the english alphabet at the same time.



Its all the same thing.

Answer 8

Cyrillic of course.