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Yo (Ё, ё) is the seventh letter of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, invented at 1797 by russian historician and writer N.M. Karamzin to replace the recklessly confused е and о for /o/ following a palatalized consonant. It is used in the Russian and Belarusian languages, along with many of the Caucasian and Turkic languages which use or used the Cyrillic alphabet, but not in many of the other Slavic languages. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Image File history File links Cyrillic_letter_Io. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced , also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languagesâ€”Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainianâ€”and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... A (Ð, Ð°) is the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Look up Ð‘, Ð± in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ve (Ð’, Ð²) is the third letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the sound . ... Ge or He (Ð“, Ð³) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing or in different languages. ... Ghe (Ò, Ò‘, also called ge with upturn) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet pronounced like the G in go. Originally part of the Ukrainian and Belarusian alphabets, its function was replaced by the letter Ge (Ð“) in the Soviet Union after 1933. ... Gje (Ðƒ, Ñ“) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Macedonian language and sometimes equivalent to Ñ’, mainly in Serbian words. ... De (Ð”, Ð´) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Dje, or Djerv (Ð‚, Ñ’) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian language to represent the sound , a voiced alveolo-palatal affricate. ... Ye, or E (Е, е), is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Ye (Ð„, Ñ”) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Ukrainian language to represent the iotated vowel sound /je/. Categories: Cyrillic letters | Writing system stubs ... Zhe (Ð–, Ð¶) is the letter of Cyrillic alphabet which represents the voiced postalveolar fricative (listen), similar to the s in the English word treasure. Zhe is the 7th letter of the Bulgarian and Belarusian alphabets, the 8th letter in the Macedonian, Russian and Serbian alphabets, and the 9th in the Ukrainian... Ze (З, з) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /z/. Its easily confusable with the number 3, for example the stages of the N1 rocket. ... Dze (Ð…, Ñ•) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Macedonian language; it is, however, much older and is found in the original Slavonic alphabet. ... I or Y (Ð˜, Ð¸) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, pronounced in Russian, or in Ukrainian. ... I (Ð†, Ñ–) (also called decimal I, or dotted I) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Belarusian and Ukrainian languages. ... Yi (Ї, ї) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Ukrainian language. ... Й, й (Short I) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Je (Ðˆ, Ñ˜) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian and Macedonian languages. ... Ka (Ðš, Ðº) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Kje (Ќ, ќ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Macedonian language. ... El (Л, л) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... The Cyrillic letter lje (Љ, љ) was originally a ligature of Л and Ь. It is used in the Serbian language. ... Em (М, м) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /m/. Code positions This article is a substub, the first step on the way to becoming a full article. ... Look up Ð, Ð½ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Cyrillic letter Nje (Њ, њ) was originally a ligature of Н and Ь. It is used in the Serbian language, where it represents a voiced palatal nasal. ... O (О, о) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel /o/. Categories: Cyrillic letters | Substubs ... Pe (ÐŸ, Ð¿) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /p/. It arose directly from the Greek letter Pi (Î , Ï€). The shape of capital printed Pe can be described as a square with the bottom line missing, not to be confused with El (Cyrillic), which has a curved left. ... Er (Р, р) is the eighteenth letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Look up Ð¡, Ñ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Te (Т, т) is the letter representing the consonant /t/ in the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Tshe (Ð‹, Ñ›) is 23rd letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. ... U (У, у) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel /u/. Categories: Cyrillic letters | Substubs ... Short U (ÐŽ, Ñž) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the short semivowel in the Belarusian language, pronounced similarly to W in English. ... The acronym EF can refer to multiple things: In physics, an electric field In environmentalism, the Earth First! movement This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Kha, or Ha, (Х, х) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the voiceless velar fricative /x/ (pronounced like the ch in German Bach). It is derived from the greek letter chi. ... Tse (Ð¦, Ñ†) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Che (Ч, ч) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant cluster /tS/ or /tS/ (like the ch in change). Categories: Cyrillic letters | Stub ... Dzhe (Ð, ÑŸ) is a letter of Vuk KaradÅ¾iÄ‡s Cyrillic alphabet reform, used in Serbian and Macedonian to represent the affricate (like the J in English jump). It replaces the digraph Ð´Ð¶ from some other Cyrillic alphabets. ... Sha (Ð¨, Ñˆ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant sound or . ... Shcha or Shta (Щ, щ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /ʃʲ/, /ʃʧ/, /ʃʲʧʲ/ in Russian, and the consonant /ʃt/ in Bulgarian. ... The letter (Ðª, ÑŠ) of the Cyrillic alphabet is known as the hard sign (Ñ‚Ð²Ñ‘Ñ€Ð´Ñ‹Ð¹ Ð·Ð½Ð°Ðº ) in the modern Russian alphabet and as er golyam (ÐµÑ€ Ð³Ð¾Ð»ÑÐ¼, big yer) in the Bulgarian alphabet. ... Yery (Ð«, Ñ‹) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Soft Sign (Ð¬, ÑŒ) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet (Russian: Ð¼ÑÐ³ÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð·Ð½Ð°Ðº (mÄahkiy znak) [], Ukrainian: Ð¼â€™ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð·Ð½Ð°Ðº (miakyy znak) [], Belarusian: Ð¼ÑÐºÐºÑ– Ð·Ð½Ð°Ðº (miakki znak) []). It is named so because it usually indicates softening, or palatalization, of the preceding consonant or of the group of them. ... E or E Oborotnoye (Ð, Ñ) is a letter of the Russian alphabet, representing the non-iotated vowel, IPA: or ). Code positions See also Glagolitic alphabet Categories: | ... Yu (Ю, ю) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the iotated vowel /ju/. In common with many Cyrillic letters, it was derived from a digraph, being a ligature of Izhe (then І) or Izhei (then Н, both now И) and Uk (Ѹ, no longer in the alphabet). ... Ya (Ð¯, Ñ) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the iotated vowel (IPA). ... Countries where a West Slavic language is the national language Countries where an East Slavic language is the national language Countries where a South Slavic language is the national language The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup... is a cyrillic letter used in the Chuvash language orthography. ... Cyrillic schwa (Ó˜, Ó™) is a Cyrillic letter. ... is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet now used in Ossetic. ... (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Abkhaz to represent a voiced velar fricative (IPA: ). is the sixth letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, placed between the digraphs Ð“ÑŒ and . ... is a Cyrillic letter used only in Chuvash language. ... The Cyrillic letter Ge stroke or Ayn (in Kazakh) (Ò’,Ò“) is a Ð“ with a horizontal stroke. ... Palochka or PÃ¡loÄka (majuscule: , minuscule: , Russian: Ð¿Ð°ÌÐ»Ð¾Ñ‡ÐºÐ°, a stick) is a letter added to the Cyrillic alphabet when used in writing several Caucasian languages, such as Abaza, Adyghe, Avar, Chechen, Dargwa, Ingush, Kabardian, Lak, Lezgian and Tabassaran. ... Only used in the Gagauz language, is a letter of the Cyrillic Alphabet, Zhe (Ð–) with breve. ... The Cyrillic letter Zhje Ò– (lowercase: Ò—, Unicode name: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE WITH DESCENDER and CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE WITH DESCENDER) is used as a letter in the Tatar, Kalmyk and Dungan alphabets. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Ò˜ (Dhe, like in English this) is a Cyrillic letter used in the Bashkir language. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in the Abkhazian language. ... I or Y (Ð˜, Ð¸) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, representing in Russian and in Ukrainian. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Ò (Qa) is a Cyrillic letter used in the Bashkir language. ... The Cyrillic letter K descender or Qaf (in Kazakh (Òš,Ò›) is a Ðš with a descender. ... (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Abkhaz to represent an uvular ejective (). is the 26th letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, placed between the digraphs ÒšÑŒ and ÒžÑŒ. Categories: | ... (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Azeri. ... The Cyrillic letter N descender or Ng (in Kazakh) (Ò¢, Ò£) is an Ð with a descender. ... is a Cyrillic letter used in Altai, Yakut, and Mari languages. ... The Cyrillic letter Oe or Barred O (Ó¨, Ó©) is an O with a horizontal line through it. ... is a Cyrillic alphabet now used in the Kurdish, Altay, Khakass, Mari, Udmurt, and Komi languages. ... is a Cyrillic letter only used in Abkhaz language, where it is located on the 34th letter of the alphabet. ... is a Cyrillic alphabet used for the Bashkir language. ... Dzhe (Ð, ÑŸ) is a letter of Vuk KaradÅ¾iÄ‡s Cyrillic alphabet reform, used in Serbian and Macedonian to represent the affricate (like the J in English jump). It replaces digraphs Ð´Ð¶ or Ñ‡Ð¶ or letter Ò— (Zhje) from some other Cyrillic alphabets. ... (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Azeri. ... The Cyrillic letter Che with diaeresis (, ) is used in Udmurt language, where it is the thirtieth letter of the alphabet. ... Ò¼ (Retroflex Che) is a letter found in the Cyrillic Alphabet. ... (Retroflex Che with descender) is a Cyrillic letter currently used for the Abkhazian language. ... Ò¨ (pronounced É¥É™ as a letter) is a letter of the cyrillic alphabet. ... Ò² Ò³, (soft Kha) is a letter of certain Cyrillic alphabets such as Abkhaz, Karakalpak, Khakas, Tajik, also pre-1992 Uzbek (now the Latin script in use). ... He (Òº,Ò») /h/ is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet used in Kazakh, Tatar, Sakha, Kalmyk, Bashkir and Kildin Sami. ... (Te with descender) is a letter of Cyrillic alphabet used in Abkhazian language. ... is a ligature of Cyrillic used only for the Abkhazian language, located between Ð¦ and Ð§. Categories: | ... is used for the Chuvash langauge languages. ... U (Ð£, Ñƒ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel after non-palatalized (hard) consonants. ... The Cyrillic letter Straight U or Hamza + Waw with Damma (Ò®, Ò¯) (in Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir languages, and many other) is a straight form of the Cyrillic letter Ð£. It is used to represent the close front rounded vowel /y/. Though the letter resembles the Latin letter Y in its uppercase form, the... The Cyrillic letter Straight U with stroke or Waw with Damma (in Kazakh) (Ò°, Ò±) is a straight Cyrillic Ð£ with a horizontal line through it. ... is a letter of Cyrillic alphabet to be used for the Khakass, Mari, Altai, and Khanty languages. ... The Early Cyrillic alphabet was a writing system developed in Bulgaria during the 10th century A.D. for the writing of Old Church Slavonic. ... The letter koppa in the Early Cyrillic alphabet Koppa (?, ?) is an archaic letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, originally derived from the Greek letter Qoppa. ... Uk (, ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. ... Omega (Ѡ, ѡ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek Omega (Ω, ω). These early letters were called Archaic letters. ... Ot (Ñ¾, Ñ¿) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, a ligature of the letters Omega and Te. ... Round Omega (Ñº, Ñ») is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek Omega. ... Yat or Jat (, ) is the 32nd letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet and name of the sound represented by it. ... Ya (Ð¯, Ñ) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the iotated vowel (IPA). ... E iotified (Ѥ, ѥ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. ... Little Yus (, ) and Big Yus (, ), or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. ... Little Yus (, ) and Big Yus (, ), or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. ... Little Yus (, ) and Big Yus (, ), or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. ... Little Yus (, ) and Big Yus (, ), or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. ... Ksi (Ñ®, Ñ¯) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek letter Xi. ... Psi (Ñ°, Ñ±) is a letter in the early Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Greek letter psi (Î¨, Ïˆ). It represents the sound /ps/, as in English naps, and was used largely in loan words from foreign languages. ... Fita (Ѳ, ѳ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek Theta. ... Izhitsa (Ñ´, Ñµ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. ... Izhitsa (Ѵ, ѵ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced , also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languagesâ€”Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainianâ€”and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... The languages of the Caucasus are a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. ... The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with an estimated 140 million native speakers and tens of millions of second-language speakers. ... The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) comprise the languages of the Slavic peoples. ...

It is an iotated or palatalized O (/jo/ as in yolk, or /ʲo/), but when following a postalveolar fricative, like ж, ч, ш and щ, represents a simple /o/. This letter's syllable is always under stress. Iotation is a form of palatalisation which occurs in Slavic languages. ... Palatalization means pronouncing a sound nearer to the hard palate, making it more like a palatal consonant; this is towards the front of the mouth for a velar or uvular consonant, but towards the back of the mouth for a front (e. ... O (О, о) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel /o/. Categories: Cyrillic letters | Substubs ... Postalveolar (or palato-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tip of the tongue between the alveolar ridge (the place of articulation for alveolar consonants) and the palate (the place of articulation for palatal consonants). ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... In linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis given to certain syllables in a word. ...

Yo is identical in form to ye, as well as Latin E, except for a symbol similar to an umlaut or diaeresis. This diacritic serves no regular function in Russian (as it does in German or French), and is solely used to differentiate this letter from ye. It was first used at the end of 18th century in literary works by Karamzin, but it has not gained standard usage until 1940s.^{[citation needed]} Many loanwords still conventionaly use a combination of 'й' and 'о' to indicate palatalization. ^{[citation needed]} Ye, or E (Е, е), is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... Look up E, e in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In linguistics the term Umlaut is used in a variety of closely related ways, some narrower, some broader. ... In linguistics, a, diaeresis, or dieresis (AE) (from Greek (diaerein), to divide) is the modification of a syllable by distinctly pronouncing one of its vowels. ... A diacritical mark or diacritic, sometimes called an accent mark, is a mark added to a letter to alter a words pronunciation (i. ... Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (December 1, 1766--1826) a Russian author credited with reforming the Russian literary language. ... Й, й (Short I) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. ...

Though in common use after World War II, in printed Russian yo is still replaced by the letter ye due to their similar appearance and the ability for speakers to tell by context which sound is represented. Its use is mandatory in dictionaries, children's books and textbooks for foreign learners. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...

Some Russian authors (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) and periodicals (Literaturnaya Gazeta) always publish their texts with yo. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Russian: , Aleksandr IsajeviÄ SolÅ¾enicyn, IPA: ; born in Kislovodsk, Russia, on December 11, 1918) is a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. ... Literaturnaya Gazeta (Literary Newspaper, Russian: ) is an influential weekly cultural and political newspaper published in Russia. ...

The fact that yo is frequently replaced with ye in print often causes some confusion to non-Russians, as it makes Russian words and names harder to transcribe accurately. One recurring problem is with Russian surnames, as both -ев (-ev) and -ёв (-ov) are common endings. Thus the English-speaking world knows two leaders of the former Soviet Union as Khrushchev and Gorbachev though their surnames end in Russian with -ёв, better transcribed ov. Nikita Khrushchev in 1962 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (Russian: Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв) (nih-KEE-tah khroo-SHCHYOFF) (April 17, 1894 – September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union... Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: ; Pronunciation: mih-kha-ILL ser-GHE-ye-vich gor-bah-CHOFF) (born March 2, 1931), was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. ...