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Russian and Ukrainian

Switch on Русский or Українська and the letter keys show Cyrillic. Each letter sits where its Latin look-alike or sound-alike is on the English keys, so the layout and all the gestures stay the same: а on a, б on b, в on v, я on q, ш on w, ы (Russian) or и (Ukrainian) on y.

Flikzi has 26 letter keys and these alphabets have 33 letters, so seven are held. Hold the key and slide right: the first extra letter is the small mark in the key’s top-right corner, and a second one comes next.

HoldRussianUkrainian
её, then эє
зжж
уюю
цчч
шщщ
ьъ
гґ
ії

Flick a letter up for its capital, as in any language. Russian has autocorrect, suggestions and next-word predictions. Ukrainian has suggestions and predictions; its word list is still too small for autocorrect.