Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com FM 34-54 VIETNAMESE: , circumflex on , horn on , and bar on . In addition to these, the following five diacritics are used with vowels to indicate tone: grave , acute >, low dot , question , and tilde . Vowels with breve, circumflex, and horn can, and often do, have a tone diacritic. So, in Vietnamese, one letter can have two diacritics on it. Vietnamese uses a very complex system of diacritics. It uses breve > on V The Cyrillic alphabet is used to write Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, and many minority languages from the former Soviet Union. It is also used to write Bulgarian and Serbian.
The Cyrillic alphabet and the Roman alphabet are both derived from forms of the Greek alphabet so there is a general resemblance. Some Cyrillic letters seem to Americans to be backwards or oddly shaped. Figure G-4 shows the characters and diacritics not found in Russian. With the exception of one letter, , which is only used sometimes in Russian, none of these letters appear in the normal Russian text. SLAVIC LANGUAGES: Figure G-4 gives the simplest recognition guide for identifying documents that look like Russian but are actually other Slavic languages or minority languages. G-10 CYRILLIC ALPHABET LANGUAGES