Writing English with Cyrillic

Is this my greatest video? No, but it's all good fun.

[ConnorQuimby]

YES I AM AWARE THIS VIDEO SUCKS YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TELL ME

[tristarobichaud]

I did this to write in my diary as a teenager. It was a really strict household, so to avoid suspicion I had to pretend I was teaching myself Russian to become a missionary... 😅

[schutsheer_des_vaderlands]

1:56 The original Cyrillic letter for the sound "th" was "Ѳ ѳ" (fita), from Greek "Θ θ" (thèta). Maybe you like the look and history of that one better, but your option seems fine too.

[ilija_Duniczew]

I love to see people appreciating the Bulgarian alphabet! ❤️

[malorika]

as a russian and ukrainian speaker i love this video, although the щ in the quick brown fox threw me off guard, but i'm assuming it's a typo because when i use the mnemonic russian keyboard w gets turned to щ. still funny to imagine the quick broshchn fox XD

[BroBrian_]

This is amazing! Back when I was interested in Serbian I learned the Cyrillic alphabet and used it henceforth to write my own form of "secret" German! This is so cool to see that I am not alone with finding Cyrillic fascinating and cool.

[luxdavid.]

I sometimes use the cyrilic alphabet for writing "secret spanish". It is very fun because no one could read it

[antimatter_nvf]

Wait, with Cyrillic we always use cursive on paper! Otherwise, with letters like Д writing with a pen is really slow!

[silverstar]

I think Cyrillic is the driving reason I like the Soviet aesthetic.

[sby]

Thanks! This inspired me to make Сирилик Индонеша or Indonesian Cyrillic.

I’ve even made a backstory in an alternate history setting on how it came to be, basically PKI took over then joined the USSR then Cyrillic became the official alphabet then after the USSR’s fall indonesia once again became an independent country, only this time indonesian is written with Cyrillic.

[MiMiBrokenbourgh]

“Anglocyrillic is based and redpilled” what
“This is actually really fun.
It makes the brain work.” It is fun

[ConnorQuimby]

There's a small audio issue around 1:40 with some beeps you may hear- not sure what caused them but it's probably my headset just being wack. Sorry about that, I only noticed it in postproduction.

[CheLanguages]

I actually created my own standardised Cyrillic script for English based off of the Serbian Cyrillic script a while ago, it differs from Cyrillisch.

[Κυαδρών]

Еахх, аи леарнед де сириллик скрипт туде, анд дис ис фун хахахахаха (ай хопе ай леарн россиян сумде, ор ани одер славик лангуадже)

[leon]

2:21
you could have used џ for /ʤ/, and ң for /ŋ/, as well as ј for /j/ (like in macedonian and serbian)

[nonametherabbit]

I taught myself Cyrillic out of the back of Webster's Dictionary when I was a little kid. I don't regret it.

[VenomVaxo]

About [θ], [ð], in the Old Russian alphabet (and in Russian until 1917) there was the letter "Ѳѳ" which was used in place of the Greek letter "Θθ", pronounced phita (the name of the letter "Ѳѳ") as [f], but I think to use it to convey the sounds [θ] and [ð] in "Cyrillic English" would be better, especially since it is a Cyrillic letter.

[Tristong]

I'm a hobby linguist and I've been learning Ukrainian for about 2 years. For my conlangs I typically add both a Romanization and a Cyrillization system, and in my experience, vowels are always a problem. I love the borrowing of Ў from Belarusian, I do the same. Have you considered differentiating letters г and ґ? In Ukrainian г is IPA ɦ and ґ is IPA ɡ.

Personally, I like to use the hard sound (Ъ) and soft sound (ь) as digraphs to differentiate phonemes, when a conlang doesn't utilize palatalization. Examples:
θ = ть
ð = тЪ (if I want to keep an English aesthetic)
ð = дь (if I want phonological consistency)

Lastly, have you taken any inspiration from Interslavic?

[samneibauer]

I feel the English vowel thing because I'm trying to do my own english spelling system, as all congeners and linguistically interested people do. And I can't figure out how to romanize /ʌ/ and /ə/ so that it's easy to use on a keyboard, looks good, and no new characters are created in the system. English vowels? More like English's bowels!

[Ignisan_]

Great video, you inspired me to create cyrillic alphabet for my native language Slovak, since it is a Slavic language it was quite easy, it's based mainly on Serbian and Ukrainian cyrillic.