^† An alternative form of the letter El (Л л) closely resembles the Greek letter lambda (Λ λ).
Consonant letters represent both "soft" (palatalized, represented in the IPAwith a ⟨ʲ⟩) and "hard" consonant

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Hard sign
The hard sign (⟨ъ⟩) acts like a "silent back vowel" that separates a succeeding "soft vowel" (⟨е, ё, ю, я⟩, but not ⟨и⟩) from a preceding consonant,

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Some of the vowels, ⟨е, ё, и, ю, я⟩, indicate a preceding palatalized consonantand with the exception of ⟨и⟩ are iotated (pronounced with a preceding /j/) when written at the beginning of

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Letters in disuse by 1750
⟨ѯ⟩ and ⟨ѱ⟩ derived from Greek letters xi and psi, used etymologically though inconsistently in secular writing until the eighteenth century, and

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The numerical values correspond to the Greek numerals, with ⟨ѕ⟩ being used for digamma, ⟨ч⟩ for koppa, and ⟨ц⟩ for sampi. The system was

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Russian spelling uses fewer diacritics than those used for most European languages. The only diacritic, in the proper sense, is the acute accent ⟨◌́⟩ (Russian: знак ударения 'mark of stress'), which marks stress on a vowel, as it is done in Spanish and Greek. (

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Because Russian borrows terms from other languages, there are various conventions for sounds not present in Russian.

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