Yery
Categories: Cyrillic letters | Writing system stubs
| Cyrillic letter Yery | |||||||||||||
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| Image:Cyrillic letter Yeru.png | |||||||||||||
| Cyrillic alphabet | |||||||||||||
| А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Д | Ђ | |||||||
| Ѓ | Е | Ё | Є | Ж | Ѕ | З | |||||||
| И | І | Ї | Й | Ј | К | Л | |||||||
| Љ | М | Н | Њ | О | П | Р | |||||||
| С | Т | Ћ | Ќ | У | Ў | Ф | |||||||
| Х | Ц | Ч | Џ | Ш | Щ | Ъ | |||||||
| Ы | Ь | Э | Ю | Я | |||||||||
| Archaic letters | |||||||||||||
| Ҁ | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѻ | Ѣ | ІА | |||||||
| Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ | |||||||
| Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | |||||||||||
Yery (Ы, ы) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the tense intermediate vowel (IPA /ɨ/) in the Belarusian and Russian alphabets. A similar sound is represented by И in the Ukrainian alphabet.
Image:Yeri.png
The letter Yery in several fonts
Like many Cyrillic letters, originally the letter Yery was formed from a ligature — between Yer (Ъ) and Izhe (then І) or Izhei (then Н, now И). In ancient manuscripts, it is almost without exception found as ЪІ or ЪН. Once the letters Ъ and Ь subsequently lost their values as vowels from the Slavonic language, the current form Ы evolved.