Ya (Cyrillic)
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Ya, Ia or Ja is a letter of the Cyrillic script, the civil script variant of Old Cyrillic Little Yus. Among modern Slavic languages, it is used in the East Slavic languages and Bulgarian. It is also u
Ya, from Alexandre Benois' 1904 alphabet book, showing Yablonya, "Apple tree"
Yu (Cyrillic)
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Yu or Ju is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in East Slavic and Bulgarian alphabets.
Ya (Cyrillic)
…ea⟩, pronounced as . Although is a distinctive pronunciation of ⟨я⟩ in Russian, the letter is almost never used to transcribe that sound, unlike the use of ⟨ю⟩ to approximate close front and central rounded vowels. Nonetheless, ⟨я⟩ is used for Estonian and Finnish ⟨ä⟩ – for instance, Pärnu is written ⟨Пярну…
Yu, from the Alphabet Book оf the Red Army Soldier (1921)