Cyrillization of French
uses phonetic transcription for the Cyrillization of its many loanwords from French. Some use is made of Cyrillic's iotation features to respresent French's front rounded vowels and etymologically-softened consonants.Consonants
In the table below, the symbol represents either a "softened" consonant or the approximant. When applicable, a softened consonant can be indicated in transcription either by a following iotified vowel or by.
Doubled French consonants remain doubled in their Russian transcription: Rousseau – Руссо. Silent consonants are generally not transcribed, except where they exist in the surface form due to liaison.Vowels
Finally, the softened consonants modify the following vowels:
Neither nor are doubled.
