Why does the Rusian alphabet have similar characters to English?
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Because many of the languages spoken in Europe originated from the same one, called Proto-Indo-European. This also explains why sometimes there are similar stems of words, like brother/bruder(German)/брат(Russian)
Cyrillic alphabets, including Russian, are based on Greek alphabet. English alphabet is based on Latin alphabet, which evolved from one version of the Greek alphabet. Also, since Romans controled Greece and had ties with Greeks, two alphabets became a bit closer.
Both the Cyrillic and Latin Alphabets derive from the Greek (Latin derives from Etruscan which the derives from Greek) , so both share some characters.
The english language uses the latin alphabet, which was derived from the ancient greek one.
Russian uses the cyrillic script, which is also based mostly on the ancient greek alphabet.
The modern alphabets all started with ancient Greek. It was adapted by the Romans to the Latin language which then spread to most of western and central Europe. However the Greek alphabet also spread to Eastern Europe and was adapted to the Slavic languages. But these changes was done independently to the changes to the Latin alphabet and thus were quite different. The eastern alphabets even spread so far as to the Norse cultures with their runes and all the way to England. There were actually some eastern alphabet letters in the English alphabet which were not found in the Latin alphabet, however these mostly dissapeared when the printing press came to England. However you may still see some of these used in older hand written texts. The letter for ‘th’ was even substituted by the similar looking Latin character of Y early on.
Because they’re always trying to copy the English but can never quite get it right. Too much vodka…
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They both have characters that are similar to the Greek alphabet, that’s why there are some similarities between the two
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