Also known as Yn
Yn () is an archaic Cyrillic letter. It was an innovation entirely unique to the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, not appearing in any other Cyrillic alphabet. It was derived from the Cyrillic glyph big yus.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Ꙟ is referenced by 280 other articles, and connects out to Я, Cyrillic script and yus.
It is catalogued under the topic Cyrillic letters.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Grapheme.script
- Cyrillic
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.name
- Yn
- Grapheme.image
- Cyrillic letter Yn.svg
- Grapheme.phonemes
- , ,
- Grapheme.letter
- Ꙟ ꙟ
- Grapheme.language
- Romanian Cyrillic
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+A65E, U+A65F
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- letter
- Image
- Cyrillic letter Yn.svg
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- Unicode character
- ꙟ
- Commons category
- Cyrillic Yn
- writing system
- Cyrillic script
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Yn () is an archaic Cyrillic letter. It was an innovation entirely unique to the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, not appearing in any other Cyrillic alphabet. It was derived from the Cyrillic glyph big yus.
It was used in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represented the sounds , , and at the beginning of words. In the modern Romanian alphabet it is replaced by , , or .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ꙟ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.