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Also known as Ye with breve

Cyrillic letter

Key facts

Writing system
Cyrillic
Type
Alphabetic
Sound values
[ ɘ ], [ ə ]

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Encyclopedic overview

Ye with breve (Ӗ ӗ; italics: Ӗ ӗ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Unicode, this letter is called "Ie with breve".

Ye with breve is used only in the Chuvash language and Albanian language + Cyrillic (Shqip) to represent the close-mid central unrounded vowel /ɘ/, and mid central vowel /ə/.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ӗ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.