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ОглавлениеA NOTE ON PRONUNCIATION
Albanian is written in Latin characters but some letters and combinations are pronounced in a special way. The only one occurring in this novel is:
Xh makes the sound dj as in bridge
THE CYRILLIC ALPHABET
A few words and phrases are given in their original Russian forms. The thirty-two letters of the Cyrillic alphabet are pronounced roughly as follows:
| A | a |
| Б | b |
| B | v |
| Γ | g |
| Д | d |
| E | ye |
| Ë | yo |
| Ж | zh as in pleasure |
| З | z |
| И | i as in beet |
| Й | y |
| κ | k |
| Л | l |
| M | m |
| H | n |
| O | o |
| П | p |
| P | r |
| C | s |
| T | t |
| Y | u as in loose |
| Φ | f |
| X | kh as in (Scottish) loch |
| Ц | ts |
| Ч | ch as in church |
| Ш | sh |
| Щ | sh-ch as in fish chowder |
| Э | e |
| Ы | uh |
| Ь | [soft sign] |
| Я | ya |
| Ю | yu |
