Morse in Cyrillic - How Russia Adapted the Code When Morse met the Cyrillic alphabet, it did not force a translation letter by letter. It listened instead - and built a code matched to Russian sounds. Matched by sound Cyrillic letters took the patterns of Latin letters with similar sounds, so an operator trained in one code could read the other almost by instinct. Letters unique to Cyrillic received extra patterns of their own. A method, not an alphabet Russia's code, Japan's Wabun and the international standard are the same invention wearing three alphabets - proof that dots and dashes were never really about English. Translate any text to Morse code, play it as sound and download the audio free at: https://morsecodeworks.com/