YAT

Yat

Not to be confused with Semisoft signYat or jat is the thirty-second letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet. Its name in Old Church Slavonic is jěd’ or iad’ . In the common scientific Latin transliteration for old Slavic languages, the letter is represented by e with caron: .

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yat

Noun

  1. A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital , Cyrillic small , Glagolitic ), no longer in current use
  2. The Late Proto-Slavic (Common Slavic) vowel that was represented by this letter, usually transcribed as /e/. This vowel underwent various alterations in the later Slavic dialects and is no longer distinguished (except in Ijekavian).


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