Why are there 28 letters in the russian alphabet when the roman alphabet has only 26?
becuse the sound represntaion system is different, english does not have enough letters , more have been added over the years but not enough. nope not the roma alphabet. The Glagolitic alphabet or Glagolitsa is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It was created by brothers St Cyril (827-869 AD) and St Methodius (826-885 AD) in 855 or around 862–863 in order to translate the Bible and other texts into the Slavic languages. The name comes from the Old Slavonic glagolÉ™, which means word (and is also the origin of the name for the letter “G”). Since glagolati also means to speak, the Glagolitsa is poetically referred to as “the marks that speak”. The original Glagolitic alphabet has 41 letters, but the number varies slightly in later versions. Twenty-four of the 41 original Glagolitic letters (see Great Moravian below) are probably derived from graphemes of the medieval cursive Greek small alphabet, but have been given an ornamental design. It is presumed that the letters sha, shta and tsi w
