That's too bad. Cyrillic, especially in the context of Russian, has always seemed compact and almost cute to me.
The alphabet is very regular; it's easy even for non-fluent speakers to perfectly guess the spellings of words.
The alphabet is very regular; it's easy even for non-fluent speakers to perfectly guess the spellings of words.
Of course it is better than the mess English is, but there are still many exceptions, silent letters, dypthongs, etc.
For an almost phonetic language try Italian, for a completely phonetic one try Serbian with the Cyrillic script.
Russian here, I can assure you it decidedly is anything but compact. It frequently annoys me how verbose some things in it are compared to English.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Краткость - сестра таланта.
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