About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 225. Not illustrated. Chapters: A, Soft Sign, I With Grave, Yery, Russian Cursive, Ef, Decimal I, Shcha, Ze, Koppa, Es, Che, Qaf, Dje, Te, Dzhe, El, Em, Ukrainian Ye, Omega, Psi, Fita, Pe, Ghayn, Zhe With Breve, En, Broad On, Kha, Yi, Kje, Ye With Grave, Che With Vertical Stroke, Lje, Ka, Nje, O-Hook, a With Diaeresis, Iota, Zhe With Diaeresis, Khakassian Che, Gje, Ge With Middle Hook, U With Macron, Ue, Soft Kha, The, Bashkir Qa, Che With Diaeresis, U With Diaeresis,, En With Hook, Zhje, U With Double Acute, Pe With Middle Hook, Ka With Stroke, Oe With Diaeresis, Komi Nje, I With Diaeresis, El With Hook,, Ksi, Abkhazian Che With Descender, Ge With Descender, Abkhazian Dze, Short I With Tail, Dhe, I With Macron, Ka With Vertical Stroke, Schwa With Diaeresis, Er With Tick, Ha With Hook, Te With Descender, Komi Dje, Reversed Ze, Lha, Ze With Diaeresis, El With Tail, Komi De, Multiocular O, Yery With Diaeresis, Combining Cyrillic Millions, Double Monocular O, Komi Zje, Komi Dzje, Em With Tail, Binocular O, En With Tail, El With Middle Hook, Aleut Ka, Neutral Yer, Cche, Yae. Excerpt: The soft sign (, ), also known as (the front) yer, is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short (or "reduced") front vowel. As with its companion, the back yer, the vowel phoneme it designated was later partly dropped and partly merged with other vowels. In the modern Slavic Cyrillic writing systems (all East-Slavic plus Bulgarian and Church Slavic), it does not represent an individual sound, but rather indicates softening (palatalization) of the preceding consonant or (less commonly) just has a traditional orthographic usage with no phonetic meaning (like Russian 'flourish after a toast' and 'India ink', both pronounced, but different in grammatical gender and declension). Also, it has a function of "separati...
