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Odd. According to this venn diagram, that would only give you 3 additional characters of Greek from what you would already know coming form English. https://co

• cynicalkane 9mo ago
  Many Cyrillic letters are Latin-looking, but actually have direct Greek analogues due to the history of the writing system. If you don't know Greek letters, you'd have a hard time guessing р made a 'r' sound. If you do, it's a natural guess.
  • aleph_minus_one 9mo ago
    > If you don't know Greek letters, you'd have a hard time guessing р made a 'r' sound. If you grew up in Christian family, you know the Greek letters Χ (chi), Ρ (rho): > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho P.S. I am aware that "Windows XP" jokes that arise from this Chi Rho symbol are very easy to write ...
• ipeev 9mo ago
  That diagram is rather bad at what it tries to do. Those are also historically and phonetically the same: Λ Л Δ Д Κ К The first Cyrillic alphabet was using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script , curiously created by Saint Cyril, but then people found it was too difficult, so someone in the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire mashed up Glagolitic, Greek and Latin to create the new Cyrillic (probably naming it as a sorry to Cyril for butchering his nice unique alphabet).
  • ljlolel 9mo ago
    Also some letters are way more frequent and also when you can figure out one of the last few common letters from context you can read the rest
• owenversteeg 9mo ago
  The diagram says that (Cyrillic ∩ Greek) - (Cyrillic ∩ Latin) is 3 letters, П Ф Г but as the sibling comment says, Λ/Л, Δ/Д and Κ/К are similar enough. That only leaves you with Θ/theta (th as in thin), Σ/sigma (s as in soft), Ξ/xi (x as in fox), Ψ/psi (ps as in lapse), and Ω/omega (o as in ore.) A lot of those are close enough that you can sort of guess, if you know the English names for the letters!