Their "N" letter looks like an "H." You are confusing it with their letter for "I", which looks like a mirror-reversed "N". But they use "Z" because it is distinct from any Cyrillic letter, as a battlefield identification to prevent friendly-fire accidents.
Thanks for the sauce, I've never seen a keyboard with both Cyrillic and Roman letters before. Confusing AF but anyhow...
That backward N with the breve mark over it is called "short i" in Russian. Placed after another vowel, it makes a sound called "y-glide", like you're just starting to say the consonant Y.
Russian equivalent of letter Q
Please stop saying Z is Russian letter Q.
It is nothing of the sort.
Russian has no Q and no Z shaped letter.
Upside down N actually lol. https://images.esellerpro.com/2416/I/166/43/Microsoft%20Wedge%20Mobile%20Keyboard%20Russian%20QWERTY.jpg
Their "N" letter looks like an "H." You are confusing it with their letter for "I", which looks like a mirror-reversed "N". But they use "Z" because it is distinct from any Cyrillic letter, as a battlefield identification to prevent friendly-fire accidents.
Thanks for the sauce, I've never seen a keyboard with both Cyrillic and Roman letters before. Confusing AF but anyhow...
That backward N with the breve mark over it is called "short i" in Russian. Placed after another vowel, it makes a sound called "y-glide", like you're just starting to say the consonant Y.
It's nothing at all to do with Z or Q or N.
/wordnerd
Correct. They do not have the letter q.
Not correct. They don't have Z either.
Their Z looks like 3.
How is it equivalent to Q?
the Russian Cyrillic keyboard has a βZβ shaped letter exactly where our English keyboard has the βQ.β
Its like an upside down N https://images.esellerpro.com/2416/I/166/43/Microsoft%20Wedge%20Mobile%20Keyboard%20Russian%20QWERTY.jpg
Loosely, itβs βZβ shaped in a way
:DDD
edit:
It isn't true
I wanted it to be true, but I think that's reaching. The letter over Q is ΠΉ, so even if you turn it on its side, the bar is going the wrong way.
It isnt.
Cyrillic has no Z.
It has a letter that makes the Z sound, it just looks different.
Of course. Elsewhere when remarking on this, I wrote "Cyrillic has no Z-shaped letter"; this time I just cut off the last two words.
If you'd like to know what the Cyrillic Z looks like, I got you covered anon