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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 .
Native Russian speakers' ability to articulate [ɨ] in isolation: for example, in the names of the letters и and ы . [ 1 ] Rare instances of word-initial [ɨ] , including the minimal pair и́кать 'to produce the sound и ' and ы́кать 'to produce the sound ы', [ 2 ] as well as borrowed names and toponyms, like Ыб [ɨp] ⓘ , the ...
The IPA specifies that they mark the obscured sound, [18] as in ⸨2σ⸩, two audible syllables obscured by another sound. The current extIPA specifications prescribe double parentheses for the extraneous noise, such as ⸨cough⸩ for a cough by another person (not the speaker) or ⸨knock⸩ for a knock on a door, but the IPA Handbook ...
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 Yery (Ы). I (І, і) appears after И and represents the sound /i/. Yi (Ї, ї) appears after I and represents the sound /ji/.
borrowed words and foreign names are usually spelled as orthographic transcriptions, or, more precisely, mixed transcriptions-transliterations based mainly on original pronunciation (Jacques-Yves Cousteau is rendered in Russian as Жак-Ив Кусто; the English name Paul is rendered as Пол, the French name Paul as Поль, the German ...
ZURICH (Reuters) -Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza have devastated the Palestinian enclave's health system and raised serious concerns about Israel's compliance with international law, the U.N ...
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There are no native Russian words that begin with ы (except for the specific verb ыкать: "to say the ы -sound"), but there are many proper and common nouns of non-Russian origin (including some geographical names in Russia) that begin with it: Kim Jong-un (Ким Чен Ын) and Eulji Mundeok (Ыльчи Мундок), a Korean military ...