Yery

Cyrillic letter Yery

Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Д	Ђ
Ѓ	Е	Ё	Є	Ж	Ѕ	З
И	І	Ї	Й	Ј	К	Л
Љ	М	Н	Њ	О	П	Р
С	Т	Ћ	Ќ	У	Ў	Ф
Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш	Щ	Ъ
Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѹ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѻ	Ѣ	ІА
Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ	Ѱ
Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ

Yery (Ы, ы) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the tense intermediate vowel (IPA /ɨ/) in the Belarusian and Russian alphabets. The same sound is represented by И in the Ukrainian alphabet.

The letter Yery in several fonts

Like many Cyrillic letters, originally the letter Yery was formed from a ligature — between Yer (Ъ) and Izhe (then І) or Izhei (then Н, now И). In ancient manuscripts, it is almost without exception found as ЪІ or ЪН. Once the letters Ъ and Ь subsequently lost their values as vowels from the Slavonic language, the current form Ы evolved.

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