Yery
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Template:Cyrillic alphabet navbox Yery (Ы, ы) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the phoneme Template:IPA after non-palatalized (hard) consonants in the Belarusian and Russian alphabets. Because of phonological processes, the actual realization of Template:IPA after hard consonants is retracted to a close central unrounded vowel (IPA Template:IPA).
Image:Yeri.png Like many Cyrillic letters, originally the letter Yery was formed from a ligature — between Yer (Ъ) and Izhe (then І) or Izhei (then Н, now И). In ancient manuscripts, it is almost without exception found as ЪІ or ЪН. Once the letters Ъ and Ь subsequently lost their values as vowels from the Slavonic language, the current form Ы evolved.
