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:''For the sound in English sometimes represented by ''ĭ'', see near-close near-front unrounded vowel.'' Short I or Yot (Й й; italics: ''Й й'') is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve. Short I represents the palatal approximant , like the pronunciation of in ''toy''. It is transliterated as (used amongst European languages), (the most common), or (the least common, likely to be ĭ), depending on which romanization system is used and which Slavic language is under examination. See Romanization of Russian, Romanization of Ukrainian and Romanization of Bulgarian. ==History== Active use of (or, rather, the breve over ) began around the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Since the middle of the seventeenth century, the differentiation between and has become obligatory in the Russian variant of Church Slavonic orthography (used for the Russian language as well). During the alphabet reforms of Peter I, all diacritic marks were removed from the Russian writing system, but shortly after Peter I's death in 1735, the distinction between and was restored. was not officially considered a separate letter of the alphabet until the 1930s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Short I」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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