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Russian distinguishes hard (unpalatalized or plain) and soft (palatalized) consonants (both phonetically and orthographically). Soft consonants, most of which are denoted by a superscript ʲ , are pronounced with the body of the tongue raised toward the hard palate , like the articulation of the y sound in yes .
This article discusses the phonological system of standard Russian based on the Moscow dialect (unless otherwise noted). For an overview of dialects in the Russian language, see Russian dialects. Most descriptions of Russian describe it as having five vowel phonemes, though there is some dispute over whether a sixth vowel, /ɨ/, is separate ...
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".
The Cyrillic alphabet and Russian spelling generally employ fewer diacritics than those used in other European languages written with the Latin alphabet. The only diacritic, in the proper sense, is the acute accent ́ (Russian: знак ударения 'mark of stress'), which marks stress on a
When я follows a soft consonant, no /j/ sound occurs between the consonant and the vowel. The exact pronunciation of the vowel sound of я depends also on the following sound by allophony in the Slavic languages. In Russian, before a soft consonant, it is [æ], like in the English "cat".
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[v] in Russian loanwords, [w] in Arabic and Persian loanwords. Гг [ɡ] Ғғ [ʁ] Дд [d] Ҙҙ [ð] Ее [jɪ], [ɪ] The letter is iotated at the beginning of a word, after a vowel or after a soft or hard sign. Ёё [jɔ] Only used in Russian loanwords. Жж [ʐ] Only occurs in loanwords and onomatopoeia. Зз [z] Ии [i], [ij] Occurs only ...
Short I or Yot/Jot (Й й; italics: Й й or Й й; italics: Й й) (sometimes called I Kratkoye, Russian: и краткое, Ukrainian: йот) or I with breve, Russian: и с бреве) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. [1] It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve.