Ь
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Translingual
Letter
Ь (lower case ь)
- (obsolete) A letter of the Unified Northern Alphabet, Yañalif and similar Latin orthographies, used during the short-lived Soviet Latinization campaign of the 1930s.
Languages with this letter were Altai (Oyrot), Bashkir, Cherkes, Chukchi, Crimean Tatar, Dungan, Kabardin, Kazakh, Kalmuk, Karakalpak, Karachay, Ket, Khakass, Khanty, Koryak, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Mansi, Nogai, Oyrot, Permiak, Selkup, Tabasaran, Tatar and Turkmen.
Usage notes
When ⟨Ь, ь⟩ was used in Latin alphabets, small-capital ⟨ʙ⟩ was used as the lower-case form of ⟨B⟩.
In most languages, ⟨Ь, ь⟩ was pronounced [ɨ] or [ɯ], corresponding to Anatolian Turkish ⟨İ⟩. The exception was Kalmuk, where it had its Cyrillic sound value of palatalization.
Bashkir
Letter
- The thirty-eighth letter of the Bashkir alphabet
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Bulgarian
Pronunciation
Letter
Ь • (ʹ) (upper case, lower case ь)
- The twenty-eighth letter of the Bulgarian alphabet, called ер малък (er malǎk), and written in the Cyrillic script.
Usage notes
- This letter is only ever used following a consonant as the digraph ьо (e.g. in шофьор (šofjor)) to denote palatalization. (If a word were in all-caps then the upper case version would be used.)
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Eastern Mari
Letter
Ь • () (upper case, lower case ь)
- The thirty-third letter of the Eastern Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
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Kazakh
Letter
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Mongolian
Pronunciation
Letter
Ь • (ʹ) (upper case, lower case ь) (italics: Ь, ь)
- The thirty-second letter of the Mongolian alphabet, called зөөлний тэмдэг (zöölnii temdeg), and written in the Cyrillic script.
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Pannonian Rusyn
Pronunciation
Letter
Ь (ʹ) (upper case, lower case ь)
- The thirty-second letter of the Pannonian Rusyn alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
Usage notes
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Russian
Letter
Ь • (ʹ) (upper case, lower case ь)
- Alternative letter-case form of ь (ʹ).
Usage notes
- Used only when writing in capital letters.
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Ukrainian
Pronunciation
Letter
Ь • (ʹ) (upper case, lower case ь)
- The twenty-sixth letter of the Ukrainian alphabet, called м'який знак (mʺjakyj znak), and written in the Cyrillic script.
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