#yes bulgarians this is your shit I'm sorry

[extendedcyrillicblog]

Yes, this system will be subject to change. I don't know what the hell I was thinking with е and э there XD Also, we should really be using Ѣѣ for [æ] since we already have another letter for /ja/ and [æ] is the role it assumed in Early Cyrillic.

With these being the first alterations, I'll call this.... E.C. 0.2? Series 0 will go until I make the first Standard (at least for English)

Фор наѵ, енджой!

[blunt-force-therapy]

[In retrospect, I should have started this by showing a full chart of Old Cyrillic (modern Cyrillic doesn't have all the necessary letters), however the train of thought will only halt temporarily or else I fear it may derail and disappear. Here's a chart (credit to Omniglot) please bear through the post normally]

I love Cyrillic! Here's my way of using it for writing English if you want to! (Requires some effort)

First, get yourself the Old Church Slavonic keyboard layout. Yes, I know, tedious. On Windows it should be easily accessible and even already there, but if it's not, here is an online keyboard! The Shift and Alt Gr keys are modifier keys that'll help you find all the letters you'll need here. For our mobile people, Gboard has an Old Church Slavonic keyboard that's also pretty nice.

First, the vowels. A and O don't change, but E becomes Э, I becomes И and U becomes У. Yeah, I know. The Russian E actually makes a /ye/ sound in most cases, and often looks the same as Ë which makes a /yo/ sound. We can't get into that right now, though ^^'

[Also, here's Ꙏ for the schwa sound. As in, the central vowel. I accidentally deleted a paragraph dedicated solely for this old buddy and again, train of thought]

Next, some diphthongs! Russian has four main letters for diphthongs, which are in common use. These are Я for /ya/, E for /ye/, Ё for /yo/, and Ю for /yu/. E will be confusing here, and the previously used Ѭ looks pretty cool, like a friendly bug with a stick, so we'll use that for /yo/ instead. Should you need to write /yi/ (genuinely can't think of why), our old friend Ы will do nicely.

Looking back to the chart up there, you can see that /u/ is that weird monstrosity of a thing. Oy? q? Those of you who know Greek will see where this one comes from, and also prepare for further dejà vu. For simplicity's sake, we'll keep our /u/ as y and get Ꙋ, the other form of /u/ not shown there to represent /ou/, as in know, or go. Since the nasals (the ones with ~) are pretty useless to English, let's use ѧ for /aw/ as in now. /ew/, a pretty uncommon diphthong, doesn't get its own letter, sorry.

Now, finally, consonants! Let's just follow the chart up there and not be too daring. However, I would like to use some letters differently and also clarify some things. First, Ѳ will always be /th/, as in thing. Second, Ꙉ will be /dh/, as in that. Third, Ѵ will be really useful to represent [w] and avoid using y all the time, because we all know how well that DOESN'T work in English :P. And lastly, the chart doesn't show Й, which represents /y/.

I think we're all set. Please forgive me for this.

Егземрꙋ:

Невер гона гив ю ар, невер гона лет ю даѵн,

Невер гона рун арѧнд анд десерт ю,

Невер гона мейк ю кѵай, невер гона сей гудбай,

Невер гона тел ꙏ лай анд хaрт ю