Yus

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Little yus (Cyrillic: Ѧ, ѧ; Glagolitic: Ⱔ; transliterated: ę) and big yus (Cyr. Ѫ, ѫ; Glag. Ⱘ; transl. ǫ), or jus, are letters of the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic script originally representing two Old Church Slavonic nasal vowels. Each can occur in iotated form (Cyr. Ѩ ѩ, Ѭ ѭ; Glag. Ⱗ, Ⱙ), formed as ligatures with the decimal i (І). Phonetically, in Old Church Slavonic little yus represented a nasalized front vowel, possibly [ɛ̃] (like the French in in cinq or Polish ę in kęs), while big yus represents a nasalized back vowel, such as IPA [ɔ̃] (like the French on in bombon or Polish ą in kąt). The names of the letters do not imply capitalization, as both little and big yus exist in majuscule and minuscule variants. Other yus letters like the closed little yus (Ꙙ ꙙ), iotated closed little yus (Ꙝ ꙝ) and blended yus (Ꙛ ꙛ), were also used historically. Closed little yus is found in Old Church Slavonic and Middle Bulgarian manuscripts, where it may be used contrastively with little yus. In...

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