High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of national variants of the Cyrillic alphabet. Sounds are indicated using IPA. These are only approximate indicators. While these languages by and large have phonemic orthographies, there are occasional exceptions for example, Russian represents /v/ in a number of words (e.g. (yego, 'him/his', pronounced [j vo] instead of [j go]. Note that transliterated spellings of names may vary, especially y/j/i, but also gh/g/h and zh/j.