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Ah... "Constantin Constantinovitch Constantino... pushkin"? Don't want to check it out online, just curious how well I can read Cyrillic as a native Greek spea

• Joker_vD 3mo ago
  "Constantinopolsky", it's "Constantinopol" plus "-sky" which is for forming adjectives, so essentially it means "Constantinopolean".
  • YeGoblynQueenne 3mo ago
    Aha! Thanks! My eyes get very confused with the ин and the ий. I expect и to be the consonant and н the vowel but it seems like they're ... not?
    • Joker_vD 3mo ago
      Yeah, they're opposite. I suggest taking a look at the rows 10 and 16 of the table at [0]: as you can see, those letters originally had their horizontal stroke differently slanted, but in time, the slant... slanted further, and turned "Ν" (GREEK CAPITAL LETTER NU) into "Н" (CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN), and "Η" (GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA) into "И" (CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER I). You know, looking at that table, this alphabet is surprisingly fitting for modern Polish phonology, it even has nasal vowels. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Cyrillic_alphabet#Alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Cyrillic_alphabet#Alphab...
      • YeGoblynQueenne 3mo ago
        >> Yeah, they're opposite. I suggest taking a look at the rows 10 and 16 of the table at [0]: as you can see, those letters originally had their horizontal stroke differently slanted, but in time, the slant... slanted further, and turned "Ν" (GREEK CAPITAL LETTER NU) into "Н" (CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN), and "Η" (GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA) into "И" (CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER I). Weird! >> You know, looking at that table, this alphabet is surprisingly fitting for modern Polish phonology, it even has nasal vowels. Oh dear. Now I need to look those up.