Yu (Cyrillic)
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Yu or Ju (Ю ю; italics: Ю ю) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in East Slavic and Bulgarian alphabets.
In English, Yu is commonly romanized as Template:Angle bracket or Template:Angle bracket. In turn, Template:Angle bracket is used, where available, in transcriptions of English letter Template:Angle bracket (in open syllables), and also of the Template:Angle bracket digraph. The sound Template:IPAblink, like Template:Angle bracket in French and Template:Angle bracket in German, may also be approximated by the letter Template:Angle bracket.
Pronunciation
Sometimes, it is referred to as "Iotated U" because it is a so-called iotated vowel, pronounced in isolation as Script error: No such module "IPA"., like the pronunciation of Template:Angle bracket in "human". After a consonant, no distinct Script error: No such module "IPA". sound is pronounced, but the consonant is softened. The exact pronunciation of the vowel sound of Template:Angle bracket in Slavic languages depends also on the succeeding sound. Before a soft consonant, it is Script error: No such module "IPA"., the close central rounded vowel, as in 'rude'. Before a hard consonant or at the end of a word, the result is a back vowel Template:IPAblink, as in "pool".
History
Apart from the form I-O, in early Slavonic manuscripts the letter appears also in a mirrored form O-I (Template:Slavonic).[1] It is the latter form that is probably the original,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". precisely displaying the Greek combination omicron-iota (οι). At the time that the Greek alphabet was adapted to the Slavonic language giving rise to the Cyrillic alphabet, it denoted the close front rounded vowel Script error: No such module "IPA". in educated Greek speech. The close front rounded vowel does not appear in East Slavic. See above.
There was another way for it to lead to the modern form. By the analogy to several 'iotated' letters Ѥ, Ꙗ, Ѩ and Ѭ, the ancient ligature (or letter) Uk Template:Angle bracket/Template:Angle bracket possibly had its iotated form Template:Angle bracket/Template:Angle bracket.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The iotated big Yus Template:Angle bracket merged itself to Template:Angle bracket in East Slavic languages.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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Related letters and other similar characters
- У у : Cyrillic letter U
- Ү ү : Cyrillic letter Ue
- Û û : Latin letter U with circumflex
- Ū ū : Latin letter U with macron
- Ǔ ǔ : Latin letter U with caron
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External links
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