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Ь (lower case ь)
- (obsolete) A letter of the Unified Northern Alphabet, Yañalif and similar orthographies, used during the short-lived Soviet Latinization campaign of the 1930s.
Languages with this letter were Altai (Oyrot), Bashkir, Cherkes, Chukchi, Crimean Tatar, Dungan, Kabardin, Kazakh, Kalmuk, Karakalpak, Karachay, Ket, Khakass, Khanty, Koryak, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Mansi, Nogai, Oyrot, Permiak, Selkup, Tabasaran, Tatar and Turkmen.
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Where Ь ь were used in Latin script, small-capital ʙ was used as the lower-case form of B.
In most languages, it was pronounced /ɨ/ or /ɯ/, corresponding to Anatolian Turkish ⟨İ⟩. The exception was Kalmuk, where it had its Cyrillic sound value of palatalization.
Bashkir edit
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- The thirty-eighth letter of the Bashkir alphabet
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Bulgarian edit
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Ь • (ʹ) (upper case, lower case ь)
- The twenty-eighth letter of the Bulgarian alphabet, called ер малък (er malǎk), and written in the Cyrillic script.
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- This letter is only ever used following a consonant as the digraph ьо (e.g. in шофьор (šofjor)) to denote palatalization. (If a word were in all-caps then the upper case version would be used.)
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Arabic | n/a |
Cyrillic | Ь |
Latin | n/a |
Yañalif | Ь |
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Ь • () (upper case, lower case ь)
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Mongolian edit
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Ь • (ʹ) (upper case, lower case ь) (italics: Ь, ь)
- The thirty-second letter of the Mongolian alphabet, called зөөлний тэмдэг (zöölnii temdeg), and written in the Cyrillic script.
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Ь • (ʹ) (upper case, lower case ь)
- Alternative letter-case form of ь (ʹ).
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- Only used when writing in allcaps.
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(Cyrillic-script letters) бу́ква; А а, Б б, В в, Г г, Д д, Е е, Ё ё, Ж ж, З з, И и, Й й, К к, Л л, М м, Н н, О о, П п, Р р, С с, Т т, У у, Ф ф, Х х, Ц ц, Ч ч, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ъ ъ, Ы ы, Ь ь, Э э, Ю ю, Я я
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Ь • (ʹ) (upper case, lower case ь)
- The twenty-sixth letter of the Ukrainian alphabet, called м'який знак (mʺjakyj znak), and written in the Cyrillic script.