Little yus (Ѧ, ѧ; italics: Ѧ, ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ, ѫ; italics: Ѫ, ѫ), or jus, are letters of the Cyrillic script representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. Each can occur in iotated form (Ѩ ѩ, Ѭ ѭ), formed as ligatures with the decimal i (І). Other yus letters like the closed little yus (Ꙙ ꙙ), iotated closed little yus (Ꙝ ꙝ) and blended yus (Ꙛ ꙛ), are also used.
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- Cyrillic
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.name
- Yus
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- Grapheme.phonemes
- Little: , Big: Iotated little: Iotated big:
- Grapheme.number
- Little: 900 (Cyrillic numerals)
- Grapheme.fam1
- ΑΑ
- Grapheme.children
- Я (from Ѧ) 𐍵 (from Ѧ) Ꙟ (from ѫ)
- Grapheme.letter
- Ѧ ѧ Ѫ ѫ Ꙛ ꙛ Ꙙ ꙙ
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- Usage and disappearance
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- In Polish
- In Romanian
- In Slovak
- In Ruthenian
- In Interslavic
- Related letters and other similar characters
- Computing codes
- References
Little yus (Ѧ, ѧ; italics: Ѧ, ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ, ѫ; italics: Ѫ, ѫ), or jus, are letters of the Cyrillic script representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. Each can occur in iotated form (Ѩ ѩ, Ѭ ѭ), formed as ligatures with the decimal i (І). Other yus letters like the closed little yus (Ꙙ ꙙ), iotated closed little yus (Ꙝ ꙝ) and blended yus (Ꙛ ꙛ), are also used.
Phonetically, little yus represents a nasalized front vowel, possibly (like the French ‘in’ in “cinq” or Polish 'ę' in “kęs”), while big yus represents a nasalized back vowel, such as IPA (like the French ‘on’ in “bombon” or Polish 'ą' in “kąt”).