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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 February 2025. See also: List of Cyrillic multigraphs Main articles: Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabets, and Early Cyrillic alphabet This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This is a list of letters of the ...
E (Е е; italics: Е е), known in Russian and Belarusian as Ye, Je, or Ie, is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In some languages this letter is called E. In some languages this letter is called E. It commonly represents the vowel [e] or [ɛ] , like the pronunciation of e in "y e s".
(This letter was removed in Soviet Ukraine in 1933–1990, so it may be missing from older Cyrillic fonts.) E (Е, е) represents /ɛ/. Ye (Є, є) appears after E and represents the sound /jɛ/. E and И (И, и) both represent the sound /ɪ/ if unstressed. И when stressed represents the sound /ɨ/, the same as the traditional Cyrillic letter ...
Ye with grave represents a stressed variant of the Cyrillic letter Ye (Е е), but it is a Ye with acute accent in Russian to indicate stress.. It is used mainly in Macedonian to prevent ambiguity in certain cases: "И не воведи нѐ во искушение, но избави нѐ од лукавиот" = "And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil", or "Сè што ...
In Unicode, the letter Ё is named CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER IO. In English, the letter Yo is romanized using the Latin ë (according to the ALA–LC and British Standards ), ë ( yë word-initially) ( BGN/PCGN ) or yo/jo ( orthographic transcription ) for Russian, and as i͡o (ALA–LC), yo (BGN/PCGN), or ë (BSI) for Belarusian.
In Tuvan the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel. [8] [9] In the Tajik language, the letters е and э have the same function, except that э is used at the beginning of a word (ex. Эрон, "Iran"). [10] In Mongolian, э is the standard letter to represent the /ɛ/ phoneme. It is often written doubled to represent the /eː/ phoneme.
The letter ы is also used in Cyrillic-based alphabets of several Turkic and Mongolic languages (see the list) for a darker vowel . The corresponding letter in Latin-based scripts are ı , I with bowl (Ь ь), and y (in Turkmen). [4] In Tuvan, the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel. [5] [6]
Cyrillic letter yat, set in several fonts. Note that in italic, the lower-case (ѣ) resembles the iotated yat. Alternate italic. Yat or jat (Ѣ ѣ; italics: Ѣ ѣ) is the thirty-second letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet. It is usually romanized as E with a haček: Ě ě.