Ye (Cyrillic)


Ye is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In some languages this letter is called E. It looks like another version of E.
It commonly represents the vowel or, like the pronunciation of in "yes".
Ye is romanized using the Latin letter E.
It was derived from the Greek letter epsilon.

Usage

Russian and Belarusian

In Russian, the letter can follow unpalatalized consonants, especially,, and. In some loanwords, other consonants before are also not palatalized, see E. The letter also represents and after palatalized consonants,, and. In these cases, may be used, see Yo. In unstressed syllables, represents reduced vowels like, see Russian phonology and Vowel reduction in Russian.

Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Ukrainian and Rusyn

This letter is called E, and represents the vowel phoneme , like the pronunciation of in the word "set".

Mongolian

The letter represents the sound at the beginning of words, and also represents in the middle or end of words and in Russian loanwords and transcriptions of foreign names.

Turkic languages

In Turkic languages utilizing the Cyrillic script, such as Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek, Ye is used to represent the phoneme ~, both word-finally and medially. Isolated or word-initially, this letter is substituted with the letter Э. If it occurs word-initially, isolated, or vowel-succeeding, it represents the phoneme /je/~/jɛ/.

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