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This difference does not exist in the other Cyrillic languages. In non-stressed positions, the vowel reduction depends on the language and the dialect. The standard Russian language reduces the vowel to , but yakanye dialects я undergo no reduction unlike other instances of the /a/ phoneme (represented with the letter а ).
The deficiencies of this alphabet were both technical (abundance of positional letterforms complicated adoption of modern technology such as typewriters and teleprinters) and linguistic (Arabic language has only three vowel qualities, but Tatar has nine, which had to be mapped onto combinations and variations of the three existing vowel letters).
Most letters in the Bulgarian alphabet stand for just one specific sound. Five letters stand for sounds written in English with two or more letters. These letters are ч (ch), ш (sh), щ (sht), ю (yu), and я (ya). Two additional sounds are written with two letters: these are дж (/dʒ/) and дз (/dz/).
The last language to adopt Cyrillic was the Gagauz language, which had used Greek script before. In Uzbekistan , Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan , the use of Cyrillic to write local languages has often been a politically controversial issue since the collapse of the Soviet Union , as it evokes the era of Soviet rule and Russification .
Ya (river), a river in Tynset municipality in Innlandet county, Norway; Yet another (YA), a common initial part of acronyms; YoungArts (YA), a scholarship program for American high school students; A US Navy hull classification symbol: Ash barge (YA)
Yae or Yæ (Ԙ ԙ; italics: Ԙ ԙ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, [1] a ligature of Я (Ya) and Е (E); я and е. Yae was used in the old alphabet of the Mordvinic languages , where it represented the sequence [jæ] , like the pronunciation of ya in " ya k".
In the Persian alphabet, the letter is generally called ye following Persian-language custom. In its isolated and final forms, the letter does not have dots ( ی ), much like the Arabic Alif maqṣūrah or, more to the point, much like the custom in Egypt, Sudan and sometimes Maghreb.
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