Also known as U with diaeresis
Cyrillic letter
Key facts
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Type
- Alphabetic
- Sound values
- [ y ]
- Development
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Encyclopedic overview
U with diaeresis (Ӱ ӱ; italics: Ӱ ӱ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, derived from the Cyrillic letter U (У у У у).
U with diaeresis is used in the alphabets of the Altai, Khakas, Khanty, Mari and Shor languages, where it represents the close front rounded vowel /y/, the pronunciation of the Latin letter U with umlaut (Ü ü) in German. It is also used in the Komi-Yodzyak language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ӱ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.