Why does the Rusian alphabet have similar characters to English?
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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.
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