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Little yus was used for /ja/ and big yus for unknown vowels, transcribed in later Romanian as /ɨ/ and /ə/. Now Romanian uses the Latin alphabet and /ɨ/ is written Îî or Ââ. /ə/ is written as Ăă. One of the first transcriptions of the big yus as î in Romanian is found in Samuel Klain, Acathist, Sibii, 1801.
In pronunciation, the Church Cyrillic letter big yus (Ѫ ѫ) corresponds to the pronunciation of the Polish ą. However, it is little yus (Ѧ ѧ), which is phonetically similar to ę and, more importantly, shares visual resemblances with the Latin alphabet initial letter (A, a) plus an ogonek , that some believe led to ogonek's introduction.
Map of the big yus (*ǫ) isoglosses in Eastern South Slavic and eastern Torlakian according to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences' atlas from 2001. [1] Pronunciation of man and tooth, derived from Proto-Slavic words *mǫžь and *zǫbъ on the map:
Called юсъ большой (big yus) in Russian. Ѭ ѭ: ѭсъ: jǫsо̆ jǫ i͡ǫ [jɔ̃] І-Ѫ ligature After č, š, ž, c, dz, št, and žd, this letter was pronounced [ɔ̃], without iotation. Called юсъ большой йотированный (iotated big yus) in Russian. Ѧ ѧ, Ꙙ ꙙ ѧнъ: jęnŏ ę ę [ɛ̃] 900 Glagolitic Ens Ⱔ
Pronunciation of Old Church Slavonic ѫ (yus) and ъ as long broad е (æ) in a stressed syllable and as a slightly reduced a in an unstressed syllable - з æː п vs. formal зъп, дажд æː vs. formal дъждът. The Teteven dialect has a similar feature, although without long vowels
Before the reform of 1945, this sound was written with two letters, "ъ" and "ѫ" ("big yus", denoting a former nasal vowel). Additionally "ъ" was used silently after a final consonant, as in Russian. In 1945 final "ъ" was dropped; and the letter "ѫ" was abolished, being replaced by "ъ" in most cases.
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It is sometimes referred to as "голяма носовка" (big nasal sign) and "ъ широко" (wide ъ). For a brief period, the letter Ѭ (iotated big yus) was used, during the use of the Drinov Orthography, and represented the sound [jɐ] or /jɤ/ in words verb conjugations, for example in търпѭ (IPA: /tɐrˈpjɤ/). The letter Ѫ ...