Es (Cyrillic)

Es (Cyrillic)

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Es (С, с) is the eighteenth letter in the Bulgarian, the nineteenth letter in the Russian, and the twenty-first letter in Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. It looks like a C in the Latin alphabet. It is one of seven letters in the Cyrillic alphabet that look like letters in the Latin alphabet but are pronounced in a different way. It represents IPA|/s/ except when followed by a palatalizing vowel, such as in Russian сера IPA| [ˈsʲɛrə] ('sulfur').

It is a variant of the letter sigma, lunate sigma, in use in the Greek-speaking world in early medieval times, and has no connection to the C of the Latin alphabet, which is a descendant of gamma.

See also

*Ц, ц - Tse (Cyrillic)
*S, s - Es (Latin)
*Σ, σ - Sigma (Greek)
*Γ, γ - Gamma (Greek)


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