Es (Cyrillic)
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It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar fricative, like the pronunciation of ⟨s⟩ in "sand".
Es, from Alexandre Benois' 1904 alphabet book, with an illustration of sweetness (Slasti)
Coptic icon of St. Mark, clearly showing examples of lunate sigma from which the Cyrillic Es was derived
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Russian is an East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is the native language of the Russ
Es (Cyrillic)
…for details consult the articles on the languages. Language Position in alphabet Pronunciation Belarusian 19th , Bulgarian 18th , Macedonian 22nd Russian 19th , Serbian 21st Ukrainian 22nd , Ossetic (Iron) 23rd Related letters and other similar characters Σ σ/ς : Greek letter Sigma S s : Latin letter S…
This page from an "ABC" book printed in Moscow in 1694 shows the letter П.
The Ostromir Gospels of 1056–1057 is one of many medieval illuminated manuscripts preserved in the Russian National Library.