Soft sign

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Template:Cyrillic alphabet navbox Soft Sign (Ь, ь) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet (Russian: мягкий знак Template:IPA, Ukrainian: м’який знак Template:IPA, Belarusian: мяккі знак Template:IPA). It is named so because it usually indicates softening, or palatalization, of the preceding consonant.

See also: iotation, hard sign

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