Wow, this is really nice.

I have tried several times before to learn the sounds of the Cyrillic alphabet, and while I was able to do so, I always forgot it quickly because the sounds/letters were never presented in an order or pattern that made sense to me.

For example, the letter "Ж" was always likened to the letter "s" in treasure and pleasure, even though the English "S" sound was written with a Cyrillic "C". But when you compare the Cyrillic letters to their Esperanto equivalents (such as "Ж" is equivalent to "Ĵ"), it becomes much easier to me to understand the Cyrillic letters and the sounds they make.

Thanks for sharing, LazyRavenclaw!

This article presents only one possible system. I made a Cyrillic converter for Esperanto that supports several systems (with Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian letters, etc.).

See the article ( http://www.liberafolio.org/2010/41b43044243843d430-43b43844243544043e-41d435-43443043d43a43e43d ) Латинай литерой? Не данкон! It was a joke for April 1st and then several commenters switched to writing Esperanto in cyrillic letters. This has become a "just for fun" exercise for Esperanto speakers that pops up from time to time.

Ooo, Esperanto in Cyrillic looks cool.

I came across this script (non-cyrillic) a few years back that I thought was pretty interesting ... http://esperanto.us/sxava_alfabeto/ It's kinda like shorthand for esperanto.

Wow, that's amazing. I've not heard of it. Thanks for sharing

EDIT: I've made another post about it: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/13546245

This is really cool! Thanks for sharing!

How about I give it a try? A=А а B=Б б V=В в G=Г г D=Д д E/Je=Е е Jo=Ё ё Ĵ=Ж ж Ĝ=Ӂ ӂ -ĵd=Җ җ Z=З з Dz=Ѕ ѕ I=І і Ji=Ї ї T=Ѳ ѳ I=И и J=Й й K=К к Q=Ԟ ԟ L=Л л M=М м N=Н н Ks=Ѯ ѯ O=О о P=П п R=Р р S=Ш ш T=Т т -ĉj-=Ћ ћ U=У у Ŭ=Ў ў U=Ꙋ ꙋ F=Ф ф Ĥ=Х х H=Ӿ ӿ Ps=Ѱ ѱ O=Ѡ ѡ C=Ц ц Ĉ=Ч ч Ŝ=Ш ш Ŝt=Щ щ '=Ъ ъ -j-=Ь ь E=Э э Ju=Ю ю Ja=Я я *"Е" is "je" at the beginning of names and words and after vowels and "e" elsewhere, with "e" beïng represented by "Э" at the beginning of words and after vowels. The rest marked with an asterisk are just for loanwords and foreign names. I'd like to know what you guys think.

This made me laugh so much, dankon mia kara amiku! :) could this mean that if there were an esperanto course for russian speakers, it could show the course in both cyrillic and latin alphabets (like it does on the course already)? This was really intresting so ,again, thank you ;)

Subskribu kaj disvastigu nian pledon ĉe Avaaz por ke instruistoj prezentu unu lecionon pri Esperanto kaj ĝia lingvo-komunumo al siaj lernantoj.

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Teachers_and_Esperantospeakers_To_have_one_lesson_about_Esperanto_in_schools/?ccPyknb&utm_source=sharetools&utm_medium=copy&utm_campaign=petition-400737-Teachers_and_Esperantospeakers_To_have_one_lesson_about_Esperanto_in_schools&utm_term=cPyknb%2Ben

how about using something like Хь instead of Ҳ (H), and УЪ instead of Ў (Ŭ). the ь character softens the sound before it, so in Esperanto it would soften ĥ to h.The Ъ hardens the sound before it turning u into ŭ. I suggest this because the characters Ҳ and Ў are only available in one or two versions of cyrillic, one of which isn't even in use anymore, none of which have all the other characters used for Esperanto. Ĥ would still be Х because the Х is an Ĥ sound in Russian already. ь is typed with x key already, & Ъ is typed with SHIFT+6 using the russian keyboard layout. The only downside is the Ъ is huge compared to a lowercase у (u). ь could also be used in place of Ъ so it would be more proportional but it might make remembering хь/х confusing.

Esperanto and Cyrillic alphabet go together quite well since Zamenhof borrowed nearly the whole sound system of Esperanto from Slavic languages (especially Polish and Serbo-Croatian, which sound nearly mistakingly like it to foreign ears), minus the palatalization of consonants which can nevertheless be indicated simply by adding j. All sounds of Esperanto perfectly map into the Cyrillic alphabet without any need for diacritics (except the micron of ŭ and short i which stands for j), and conversely, nearly all sounds of slavic languages written with Cyrillic can translate into Esperanto letters, except for the hard i which could be indicated with a j used in lieu of a vowel (or without any vowel at all as Czech does with its own latin alphabet). Chërnobyl could thus be written Ĉjornobjl.

Of course Cyrillic is not official in Esperanto but Zamenhof would have approved of it given the fact that he himself was tolerant of alternate typing systems whenever there were no typewriters with accented letters, and in Soviet Russia there was no other typing and printing equipment available other than in Cyrillic. Esperanto should now and then appear in Cyrillic so as for the general public to get acquainted to that alphabet the easy way and no longer be afraid by Russian inscriptions.