quick brown fox

[Alexandra N. Leontieva]

Hello all,

> Does anyone know of a conventional sentence in Russian that contains all of
> the letters of the alphabet, equivalent to "the quick brown box jumped over
> the lazy dog"?

I can only contribute with the phrase that communications people (phone
companies, radioelectronics specialists et al.) used to check the quality of
the line. Supposedly it contains either all the sounds of Russian - or,
probably, the most difficult sounds of Russian that tend to get garbled:

Ivan prokhodit nizkim shtrekom, tarania nosom chernyi potolok.

(I'm not sure about "nizkim", though - it might be "uzkim.")

--
Alexandra N. Leontieva, dr.art.
guest researcher
BEEGS - Baltic and East European Graduate School
Sodertorns hogskola (University College)
SE-141 89 Huddinge
Stockholm, Sweden
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