> russian apparently lost these sounds which proves gradual simplification of this language are you retarded? russian didn't really lose any sounds since 13th century. moreover, we got more sounds, such as [f] and russian language stopped being syllable-based that's allowed more consonant clusters to form. we got rid off tons of letters though, as they were a rudiment from greek texts. we used to have both phi and theta for [f] sound for borrowed greek words that had phi and theta in them. it didn't mean anything to most people. i mean, what's the purpose of letters that only have meanings in another languages? same with old letters like greater and lesser yus that were only used to show words' stress in writing and yat that just meant that [] sound is pronounced a little bit longer.
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