Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary PHONETIC ALPHABET - an alphabet containing a separate character for each distinguishable speech sound.Webster's New International English Dictionary : any of various systems of identifying letters … : a set of symbols used for phonetic transcription 2. PHONETIC ALPHABET - noun Date: 1848 a set of symbols (as the IPA) used for phonetic transcription, any of various systems of identifying ….More meanings of this word and English-Russian, Russian-English translations for the word «PHONETIC ALPHABET» in dictionaries. It is basically just a Russian keyboard with a layout more similar to the QWERTY-keyboard. Similarly, the Latin letters Q, C and Y don't have Cyrillic counterparts.Īs a result, the Latin letters on the keys I press don't always allign with the Cyrillic letters that appear on the screen. Secondly, I don't see how it's a problem that letters like Я, Ю, Ш or Щ don't have direct Latin counterparts. I don't have this problem when using a phonetic keyboard. So for instance when I want to type the letter 'П', I often end up typing the 'Р'. The first problem I have with the Russian keyboard, is that I often mix up the false friends of the two alphabets. Admittedly, I have not learned the lay-out of the Russian keyboard (yet), meaning I use hunt and peck typing when on my phone which is much slower than what I'm used to, so I am somewhat biased. I use both the phonetic and the Russian keyboard on my laptop and phone respectively, and I much prefer the phonetic keyboard. A lot of Russian words (both common and less common) are typed exactly the same way on a YaVERTY keyboard as their Polish translations on QWERTY. They mean the same and sound similar, so pressing O-K-N-O for one and J-R-Y-J for another is rather silly. In fact, reading the list of top 30 bigrams in Russian language reveals that many of them are awkward to type: Īnyway, my main reason for using phonetic layout is that it's trivial to learn and works as well as the standard one.Īlso, I'll reiterate what I said elsewhere: If you speak a Slavic language with Latin alphabet, you'll prefer to type cognates the same way. Which is why т and ь shouldn't be positioned as they are. Many words that end with the letter т are followed by ь - on the Russian layout, these are right next to each other. Not the best positions, I'll give you that, but it works. My layout (modified default Linux Russian phonetic one, YaVERTY) has: Small detail but just an example of how important the layout is in the real world.ĮDIT: Another post here which has great tips for learning a foreign keyboard If you have a phonetic layout, it won't work.
PUNTO SWITCHER FOR RUSSIAN PHONETIC ALPHABET PC
This means you can use many resources without the Russian language keyboard installed on your PC or device. For example, if you go on rzd.ru (Russian Railways), you can type "vjcrdf" and it reads it as Москва. It's a clever layout that feels very natural when you start typing Russian words - for example, many words that end with the letter т are followed by ь - on the Russian layout, these are right next to each other.Īlso, something learners may not realize is that many Russian websites actually accept Latin characters as Cyrillic. Secondly, you'll learn the Russian keyboard faster than you think. Я - Ya, Ю - Yu, Ш - Sh, Щ - Shsh How can you map these very common letters to single keys? This is also why the phonetic keyboard fails. Is Ж - J or Zh? Is Х - Kh or H? Is Ч - Ch or Tch? It's not like Serbian where there is both a functional Latin and Cyrillic script alphabet, there is no agreed way to transliterate the Russian alphabet to the English alphabet, so any attempt at learning Russian without Cyrillic script is a waste of time, in my opinion. There's only one option in Russian: the Russian alphabet (edit: which Duolingo uses when you choose Cyrillic script). I've posted a few rants about why the phonetic Russian keyboard bugs me and I decided to collect these into a post to help anyone new to Russian and wondering which path to take.įirstly, Duolingo offers a Latin script or Cyrillic script option, this may lull you into this is a real option when learning Russian.
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