The soft sign (Ь ь; italics: Ь ь) is a letter in the Cyrillic script that is used in various Slavic languages. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented...

A yer is either of two letters in Cyrillic alphabets, ъ (ѥръ, jerŭ) and ь (ѥрь, jerĭ). The Glagolitic alphabet used, as respective counterparts, the...

Russian: мягкий знак, myagkiy znak Bulgarian: ер малък, er malâk The soft sign ⟨ь⟩ usually does not represent a sound, but modifies the sound of the preceding...

with back Yer Ь ь : Cyrillic letter Soft sign Ҍ ҍ : Cyrillic letter semisoft sign Ѣ ѣ : Cyrillic letter yat I ı : Latin letter Dotless I Ь ь : Latin letter...

Latin yeru or I with bowl[dubious – discuss] (majuscule: Ь, minuscule: ь) is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet based on the Cyrillic soft sign...

after ъ and ь. The digraphs ye and yë are used to indicate iotation at the beginning of a word, after vowels, and after й, ъ or ь. ye after ь. ё = ye after...

a semivowel / consonant (⟨й⟩), and two modifier letters or "signs" (⟨ъ⟩, ⟨ь⟩) that alter pronunciation of a preceding consonant or a following vowel....

be distinguished at Preslav; Preslav Double-Yer (ъ ≠ ь) and Preslav Single-Yer (ъ = ь, usually > ь). The Preslav and Ohrid recensions are described in...

lowercase form of the letter B is ʙ (small caps B), to prevent confusion with Ь ь (I with bowl). Letter No. 33, similar to Zhuang Ƅ, is not currently available...

lj but it can also be transliterated as ľ, or ļ. Л л : Cyrillic letter El Ь ь : Cyrillic letter Soft sign Ll : Spanish double L in the absence of Yeísmo...

п, Р р, С с, Т т, У у, Ф ф, Х х, Ц ц, Ч ч, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ы ы, Э э, Ю ю, Я я, Ь ь, Й й, ä, ö, ӱ, ң, ӝ. Above the long vowels was supposed to put a line (macron)...

Ӓ Б В Г Ґ Д Ђ Ѓ Е Ѐ Е̄ Е̂ Ё Є Ж З З́ Ѕ И І Ї Ꙇ Ѝ И̂ Ӣ Й Ј К Л Љ М Н Њ О О̀ О̂ Ō Ӧ П Р С С́ Т Ћ Ќ У У̀ У̂ Ӯ Ў Ӱ Ф Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ꙏ Ъ Ъ̀ Ы Ь Ѣ Э Ю Ю̀ Я Я̀...

(*ь/ĭ or *ъ/ŭ). Macron ⟨ā⟩: A long vowel with no distinctive tone. In Middle Common Slavic, vowel length was an implicit part of the vowel (*e, *o, *ь,...

reverted the addition of back-front vowel distinctions. The letters Ө ө, Y y, Ь ь were removed from the alphabet, while the letter Ə ə had its usage reduced...

letters ь and ә are used as parts of digraphs, but are listed separately in the alphabet. Besides the digraphs listed in the alphabet, the letter ь occurs...

before consonants and non-palatalized vowels, in the same sense digraph xh h (ь, ъ). Digraphs: cz (ц), sz (ш), sc (щ), hi (ы) — rhibhi (рыбы), bhil (был)...

the Cyrillic script. It comes from a ligature of Te (Т т) and soft sign (Ь ь). The letter has been used in the Surgut and Shurishkar varieties of the...

Cyrillic script. It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En ⟨н⟩ and Soft Sign ⟨ь⟩. It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for use in his 1818 dictionary...

to eliminate the hard sign altogether, and replace it with the soft sign ь, which always marks the softening of a consonant. However, in part because...

Cyrillic script. In transcriptions of Church Slavonic, it is used to indicate Ь or Ъ when it is not possible to tell the difference in a historic manuscript...

in и or ь). ‑ний (‑nii) after front vowel stems (other than those ending in и or ь). ‑ины (‑inii) after back vowel stems ending in и (i) or ь (i). ‑иний (‑inii)...

Montenegrin, Russian, Ukrainian, Rusyn and Belarusian); /zʲ/, if followed by ⟨ь⟩ or any of the palatalizing vowels, as in Russian зеркало [ˈzʲer.kə.ɫə] (“mirror”);...

тё /tʲo/, тю /tʲu/. If no vowel follows, palatalization is indicated by ь, e.g. ть /tʲ/. Following non-alveolar consonants, only а, е, и, о, у occur...

another, they may be used in this and related articles. The yers ⟨ъ⟩ and ⟨ь⟩ originally indicated the pronunciation of ultra-short or reduced /ŭ/, /ĭ/...

is replaced by the letter Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ). Also, the soft sign (Ь ь) is replaced by the I with macron (Ӣ ӣ). Further, the Kha with descender...

m, N n, Ꞑ ꞑ, O o, Ө ө, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, Ş ş, Z z, Ƶ ƶ, L l, Ь ь, Y y, Į į. The order of the letters was later changed to correspond with...

special use. In Russia, Latin letter X, or its Morse/Baudot Cyrillic equivalent Ь, are used to designate government, military, and experimental aviation airfields...

language before, combining the letters ⟨Л⟩ (L) and ⟨Н⟩ (N) with the soft sign (Ь). Karadžić based ⟨Џ⟩ on letter "Gea" in the Old Serbian Cyrillic alphabet...

are written with two letters: these are дж (/dʒ/) and дз (/dz/). The letter ь marks the softening (palatalization) of any consonant (except ж, ч, and ш)...

monosyllables. This secondary circumflex occurs only on the short vowels e, o, ь, ъ in an open syllable (i.e. when not forming part of a liquid diphthong)...