Ukrainian Ye

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-	Similar Cyrillic letters:
-	*Е е : [[Ye (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic Ye]]
-	*Ё ё : [[Yo (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic Yo]]
-	*Э э : [[E (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic backwards E]]
-	*{{unicode|'''Ԑ'''}} {{unicode|'''ԑ'''}} : [[Reversed Ze|Cyrillic Reversed Ze]]
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-	Similar non-Cyrillic letters:
-	*E e : [[E|Latin E]]
-	*{{unicode|Ɛ ɛ}} : [[Latin epsilon|Latin Epsilon]]
-	*Ε ε : [[Epsilon|Greek Epsilon]]
-	}}

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Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Д	Ђ
Ѓ	Е	Ѐ	Ё	Є	Ж	З
Ѕ	И	Ѝ	І	Ї	Й	Ј
К	Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ	О
П	Р	С	Т	Ћ	Ќ	У
Ў	Ф	Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш
Щ	Ъ	Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ	Ӓ	Ә	Ӛ	Ӕ	Ғ	Ҕ
Ӻ	Ӷ	Ԁ	Ԃ	Ӗ	Ӂ	Җ
Ӝ	Ԅ	Ҙ	Ӟ	Ԑ	Ӡ	Ԇ
Ӣ	Ҋ	Ӥ	Қ	Ӄ	Ҡ	Ҟ
Ҝ	Ԟ	Ԛ	Ӆ	Ԓ	Ԡ	Ԉ
Ԕ	Ӎ	Ӊ	Ң	Ӈ	Ҥ	Ԣ
Ԋ	Ӧ	Ө	Ӫ	Ҩ	Ҧ	Ҏ
Ԗ	Ҫ	Ԍ	Ҭ	Ԏ	Ӯ	Ӱ
Ӳ	Ү	Ұ	Ҳ	Ӽ	Ӿ	Һ
Ҵ	Ҷ	Ӵ	Ӌ	Ҹ	Ҽ	Ҿ
Ӹ	Ҍ	Ӭ	Ԙ	Ԝ	Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѻ	Ѹ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѣ	Ꙓ
Ꙗ	Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ
Ѱ	Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ	Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

Ukrainian Ye (Є, є; italics: Є, є) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.

It commonly represents the vowel /e/ or /ɛ/, similar to the English pronunciation of ‹e› in "yes". (See Usage below for more detail.)

Contents 1 History 2 Usage 3 References 4 See also

History

The Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye was derived from the Greek letter Epsilon (Ε, ε).

In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was Template:Script (estĭ), meaning "am" or "is" - present tense from "to be".

In the Cyrillic numeral system, Ukrainian Ye had a value of 5.

Usage

Ukrainian Ye is used in Ukrainian and Rusyn to represent /je/, or the iotated vowel sound /e/ after a palatalized consonant.

In Old East Slavic it represents /e/ without palatalization (a palatalized /e/ in Old East Slavic is represented by ‹Ѥ›) and is interchangeable with Ye (Е, е) as a typographic variant.

The United States Federal Geographic Data Committee uses a character similar to capital Ukrainian Ye to represent the Cambrian Period in geologic history.^[1]

The letter is similar to the symbol for the euro currency ‹€›. In a memorandum from the European Commission on the design of the euro sign, the letter was accidentally used to represent the Greek letter Epsilon.^[2]

References

Півторак Г. П. Український алфавіт // Українська мова: Енциклопедія. — К.: Українська енциклопедія, 2000. ISBN 966-7492-07-9 — С. 679—680. (H. Pivtorak, "Ukrainian Alphabet") <references/>

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