text:  These characters (with the exception of a few which are omitted in the Russian) varied surprisingly little in their form [5] and perhaps without any change whatever in their vocal value compose the modern alphabet of the Russian language; an examination of which would go far in our opinion to settle the long agitated question respecting the ancient pronunciation of the classic languages particularly as Cyril and his brother adapted the Greek alphabet to a language totally foreign from and unconnected with any dialect of Greek