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Cyrillic letter YusPhonetic usage:The
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Archaic letters
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Little yus (Ѧ ѧ) and
big yus (Ѫ ѫ), or
jus, are letters of the
Cyrillic script[1] representing two
Common Slavonic nasal vowels in the
early Cyrillic and
Glagolitic alphabets. Each can occur in
iotified form (Ѩ ѩ, Ѭ ѭ), formed as
ligatures with the
decimal i (І). Other yus letters are
blended yus (Ꙛ ꙛ),
closed little yus (Ꙙ ꙙ) and
iotified closed little yus (Ꙝ ꙝ).

Cyrillic little yus (left) and big yus (right); normal forms (above) and iotified (below)

Handwritten little yus
Phonetically, little yus represents a nasalized front vowel, possibly [
ɛ̃], while big yus represents a nasalized back vowel, such as IPA [ɔ̃]. This is also suggested by the appearance of each as a 'stacked' digraph of 'Am' and 'om' respectively.
The names of the letters do not imply
capitalization, as both little and big yus exist in
majuscule and
minuscule variants.
Contents
1Disappearance1.1In Bulgarian and Macedonian1.2In Russian1.3In Polish1.4In Romanian1.5In Slovak2In Interslavic3Related letters and other similar characters4Computing codes5ReferencesDisappearance[[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yus&action=edit§ion=1]edit[/url]]All modern Slavic languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet have lost the nasal vowels (at least in their standard varieties), making Yus unnecessary.
In Bulgarian and Macedonian[[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yus&action=edit§ion=2]edit[/url]]Big Yus was a part of the
Bulgarian alphabet until 1945. However, by then, in the eastern dialects, the back nasal was pronounced the same way as
ъ [ɤ]. Because the language is based mainly on them, the western pronunciations were deemed unliterary, and the letter was gone.
There were some
Bulgarian and
Macedonian dialects spoken around
Thessaloniki and
Kastoria in northern Greece that still preserve a nasal pronunciation e.g. [ˈkɤ̃de ˈɡrẽdeʃ ˈmilo ˈt͡ʃẽdo] (Къде гредеш, мило чедо?; "Where are you going, dear child?"

, which could be spelled pre-reform as "Кѫде грѧдеш, мило чѧдо?" with big and little yus.
On a visit to
Razlog, in Bulgaria's
Pirin Macedonia, in 1955, the Russian dialectologist
Samuil Bernstein noticed that the nasal pronunciation of words like [ˈrɤ̃ka] (hand), [ˈt͡ʃẽdo] (child) could still be heard from some of the older women of the village. To the younger people, the pronunciation was completely alien; they would think that the old ladies were speaking
Modern Greek.
[2]In Russian[[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yus&action=edit§ion=3]edit[/url]]In
Russia, the little Yus came to be pronounced as an iotated /ja/ (
я) in the middle or at the end of a word and therefore came to represent that sound also elsewhere; the modern letter я is an adaptation of its cursive form of the 17th century, enshrined by the
typographical reform of 1708. (That is also why я in Russian often corresponds to nasalized
ę in
Polish; cf. Russian пять; Polish
pięć.)
In Polish[[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yus&action=edit§ion=4]edit[/url]]In
Polish, which is a Slavic language written in the
Latin alphabet, the letter
Ę ę has the phonetic value of little Yus, and
Ą ą has that of big Yus. The
iotated forms are written
ię, ią, ję, ją in Polish. However, the phonemes written
ę and
ą are not directly descended from those represented by little and big yus but developed after the original nasals merged in Polish and then diverged again. (
Kashubian, the closest language to Polish, uses the letter
ã instead of
ę.)
In Romanian[[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yus&action=edit§ion=5]edit[/url]]Little and big yuses can also be found in the
Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, used until about 1860. Little Yus was used for /ja/ and big Yus for /ɨ/. Now
Romanian uses the
Latin alphabet and /ɨ/ is written
Îî.
In Slovak[[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yus&action=edit§ion=6]edit[/url]]Little yus in
Slovak language alphabet has been substituted by
a (
desať,
načať),
e (
plesať), iotified
ia (
žiadať,
kliatba,
mesiac),
ie (
bdieť) and
ä in several cases (
pamäť,
päť,
svätý). Big yus is transliterated and pronounced as
u, or accented
ú (
budeš,
muž,
mučeník,
ruka,
navyknúť,
pristúpiť,
púť,
usnúť). Iotified, and closed iotified form of little yus occur as
ja (e.g.
jazyk,
svoja,
javiť,
jasle).
In Interslavic[[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yus&action=edit§ion=7]edit[/url]]The
interslavic language, a zonal,
constructed, semi-artificial language based on Proto-Slavic and Old Church Slavonic modified based on the commonalities between living Slavic languages, allows (though doesn't encourage it for intelligibility purposes) to use both the little and big yus when writing in the scientific variety of its Cyrillic script. The letters correspond directly to their etymological values from Proto-Slavic, but do not retain the nasal pronunciation, instead going for one aiming to convey the "middle-ground" sounds found in etymologically corresponding letters in living Slavic languages. The iotated versions are not part of the standard scientific vocabulary, where the yuses are instead accompanied by the Cyrillic letter "ј", also used in the modern
Serbian alphabet, though their use is optionally permissible for aesthetic reasons if one opts for using the more standard iotated vowels in their writing, so that consistency is preserved.
Related letters and other similar characters[[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yus&action=edit§ion=8]edit[/url]]Я я :
Cyrillic letter YaѢ ѣ :
Cyrillic letter YatĘĄComputing codes[[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yus&action=edit§ion=9]edit[/url]]CharacterѦѧѨѩEncodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexCharacterѪѫѬѭEncodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexCharacterꙚꙛEncodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexCharacterꙘꙙꙜꙝEncodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex