Also known as Yery with diaeresis
Cyrillic letter
Key facts
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Type
- Alphabetic
- Language of origin
- Mari language
- Sound values
- /ə̟/
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Encyclopedic overview
Yery with diaeresis (Ӹ ӹ; italics: Ӹ ӹ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Yery (Ы ы Ы ы). In Unicode, this letter is known as "Yeru with Diaeresis".
Yery with diaeresis is used in the alphabet of the Hill Mari language, where it represents a fronted mid central vowel /ə̟/, which is the front counterpart of the mid central vowel /ə/ (represented by ы). It also appears in the Northwestern Mari language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ӹ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.