Russian

Russian is a Slavic language written using the Cyrillic alphabet, a script that originated in the 9th century and was developed to represent the sounds of early Slavic languages. The modern Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters, including both consonants and vowels, as well as characters that modify pronunciation, such as the soft sign (ь) and hard sign (ъ). Its distinctive letterforms set it apart visually from the Latin alphabet used in English.