Why do countries like Russia have a different spelling system to that of Western countries?

Answer 1

It's not a different spelling system, it's a different alphabet. The Phoenicians devised the first alphabetic writing system long ago and spread it around the Mediterranean. The Arabs, Hebrews, Greeks, and many others devised their own adaptations. The Romans adapted the Greek alphabet into the writing system I am using now. The Cyrillic alphabet was adapted from the Greek to be used writing Slavic languages. It's now used to write Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian, Serbian, Macedonian, and several other languages.

Answer 2

Long time ago Macedonians and Slavs who are tribes which have Macedonian language and heredity ( read respectable Russian Historic Grinevic, who prove that mother lend of all Slavs people is Macedonia) them priests used Greek language, because other languages was forbidden for use in Churches.Macedonians monks from Solun, Kiril and Metodius, for reason Words of Bible to be understanding by pore people who didn't understand Greek psalms in Orthodoxy Churches invented letters: Kirilica. Cyrillic letters have different pronuction than Latin. Long time ego before 5 century BC Macedonians used different letters, but they were forgotten because Greek letters, these letters are founded every where Slavic lived, even after 5 century BC.
Cyrillic letters rule is : Read how is written.
Every Orthodoxy Christian Slavs country adopted Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic for own mother language.(Poland, Croatia, Slovenia have Slavs language, but they use adopted Latin letters, because they are Catholics)
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Answer 3

Because they are countries like Russai and not Western countries? ;)

If you ever had to walk from the Russian east coast to the wes coast of Europe, you wouldn't have asked this. Assuming you learn the language and the way of speaking of the locals with each step you take, you should be more likely to find a natural connection between these languages.

Answer 4

Because Russian uses a different alpabet, and when the letters get transliterated from Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet they may be represented in different ways depending on who is doing the translation.

Answer 5

Because their alphabet was made by two Bulgarian monks, Cyril and Methodius, coming from Greek.
Since very old times, the Eastern Europe has been influenced by the Greek culture, and the Western Europe by the Latin culture. Location
This alphabet ( Cyrillic ) is adapted to the complexities of the Slavic languages and is appropriate to write them. Our own alphabet, coming from different roots ( Latin ), is not suitable to write Bulgarian or Russian. It cannot reproduce many sounds typical of Slavic languages because they don't exist in our languages

Answer 6

You mean why western countries write with latin signs - just because of random .

Don't forget latin signs are only derived from greek signs - and Russian alphabet ( azbouka ) was created at the VIIIth
century by monks who decided to use greek, which is very present in й ц у к е н г ш щ з х ъ ф ы в а п р л д ж э я ч с м и
т ь б ю the modern cyrillic letters - four letters disappeared at the beginning of the century - letters ц ш щ ж ч йку are very probably borrowed to hebrew - some letters were pure inventions such as ю я э and the greek ones are й у к е н г х ф в а п р о л д с м и т

Answer 7

Why do western countries use the Roman alphabet instead of the Cyrillic alphabet? Why do none of us use the superior character based writing of east asian languages?

Answer 8

Because we got it wrong.