In Bulgarian the vowel sound is reduced to in unstressed syllables and is pronounced in both stressed verb and definite article endings When in a sentence by itself it means I Only used in Russian borrowings When it follows a consonant the consonant becomes soft However Cyrillic already had a character with this function namely so that for the Eastern Slavs these two characters were henceforth equivalent The iotated vowel is pronounced ja in initial or post vocalic positions like the English pronunciation of x77e8 ya x77e9 in ya rd When x77e8 я x77e9 follows a soft consonant no j sound occurs between the consonant and the vowel The standard Russian language reduces the vowel to but yakanye dialects x77e8 я x77e9 undergo no reduction unlike other instances of the a phoneme represented with the letter x77e8 а x77e9 the third person plural ending of the present tense of certain verbs http://mordgpi.ru/bitrix/redirect.php?goto=https://site367631030.fo.team as прав http://maps.google.ca/url?sa=t&url=https://site367631030.fo.team Modern Bulgarian правят Among the Eastern Slavs was denasalised probably to which palatalised the preceding consonant after palatalisation became phonemic the phoneme merged with a and henceforth indicated a after a palatalised consonant or else in initial or post vocalic position ja The alphabet in Meletij Smotrickij s grammar of 6669 accordingly lists и ли x855 ili or 96 6 98 he explains that is used initially and elsewhere Unstressed Я in the middle sounds like И From Old East Slavic зъ jaz from Proto Slavic 97 j azъ from Proto Indo European 97 h Although is a distinctive pronunciation of x77e8 я x77e9 in Russian the letter is almost never used to transcribe that sound unlike the use of x77e8 ю x77e9 to approximate close front and central rounded vowels In Russian before a soft consonant it is like in the English c a t In Bulgaria the situation is complicated by the fact that dialects http://ecocitycraft.com/proxy.php?link=https://site367631030.fo.team and that there were different http://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=-cySTU4jSLU&event=video_description&redir_token=2lhTKm8H3k-8jSIs-HhBIEzNsIh8MTU1NTgyMjQ4NkAxNTU1NzM2MDg2&q=https://site367631030.fo.team systems in use but broadly speaking became in most positions but in some circumstances it merged with particularly in inflexional endings e g Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ya from Classical Persian y When unstressed and in the center of a word http://xn--80aaiunencbyldg5b5bzc9c.xn--p1ai/bitrix/redirect.php?goto=https://site367631030.fo.team tends to sound like И The letter continued to be used but its distribution particularly in regard to the https://cse.google.cl/url?q=https://site367631030.fo.team yuses was governed as much by orthographical convention as by phonetic value or etymology http://clients1.google.com.tn/url?q=https://site367631030.fo.team from Russian я ja 96 8 98 For example the modern pronouns её and неё were formerly spelled ея and нея in the genitive and http://minyar-city.ru/bitrix/rk.php?goto=https://site367631030.fo.team due to their historical pronunciations as j ja and n ja which had since shifted to j jo and n jo Nonetheless x77e8 я x77e9 is used for Estonian and Finnish x77e8 x77e9 for instance P rnu is written x77e8 Пярну x77e9 in Russian although https://www.zeelandnet.nl/google/image.php?imgrefurl=https://site367631030.fo.team http://images.google.ga/url?q=https://site367631030.fo.team pronunciation does not match the original However in vernacular and informal writing of the period the two letters may be used completely indiscriminately Inherited from Old East Slavic зъ jaz from Proto Slavic 97 j azъ from Proto Indo European 97 h Variant reflex of аз az see it

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