KJV: Template:Donate

2018-12-10T22:12:05Z

Template:Donate

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:12, 10 December 2018
Line 53:		Line 53:
	\|publisher = The St. Petersburg Times		\|publisher = The St. Petersburg Times
	}}		}}

			{{Donate}}

Nick: New page: {{Cyrillic alphabet navbox| Heading=Cyrillic letter Yo| Image=100px| uuc=0401|ulc=0451}} : ''Not to be confused with latinic [[Ë]...

2011-01-09T11:55:42Z

New page: {{Cyrillic alphabet navbox| Heading=Cyrillic letter Yo| Image=100px| uuc=0401|ulc=0451}} : ''Not to be confused with latinic [[Ë]...

New page

{{Cyrillic alphabet navbox|
Heading=Cyrillic letter Yo|
Image=[[File:Cyrillic letter Yo - uppercase and lowercase.svg|100px]]|
uuc=0401|ulc=0451}}
: ''Not to be confused with latinic [[Ë]]''

{{Unicode|'''Ё''', '''ё'''}} ('''Yo''') is a letter of the [[Cyrillic alphabet]]. In [[Russian language|Russian]] and [[Belarusian language|Belarusian]] it is the seventh letter of the alphabet and in [[Rusyn language|Rusyn]] the ninth. Its status in [[Russian language|Russian]], the language in which it was first used, is ambiguous: although it indicates a distinct sound from [[е]], it is treated as the same letter for purposes of alphabetisation and sorting (thus in the dictionary ёж comes after едок and before ездить), and in most circumstances it is printed as [[е]]. It is not used in the other [[Slavic languages|Slavonic languages]]. It does however occur (as a discrete character) in the Cyrillic alphabets used by [[Mongolian language|Mongolian]] and many [[Languages of the Caucasus|Caucasian]] and [[Turkic languages]].

==Russian ==
In Russian, the letter ё indicates the phoneme {{IPA|/o/}} following a [[palatalized]] [[consonant]] (or occasionally after <ж>, <ч>, <ш>, or <щ>) in a stressed syllable. In initial or post-vocalic position it represents {{IPA|/jo/}}, also exclusively under [[Stress (linguistics)|stress]].

In modern Russian, the reflex of [[Proto-Slavic language|Common Slavonic]] {{IPA|/e/}} under stress and following a [[palatalized]] [[consonant]] but not preceding a [[palatalized]] [[consonant]] is {{IPA|/o/}}. (Compare, for example, Russian моё ('my' neuter nominative and accusative singular) and [[Polish language|Polish]]/[[Czech language|Czech]]/[[Slovak language|Slovak]] ''moje'') However, since this sound change took place after the introduction of writing, the letter <[[е]]> continued to be written in this position. It was not until the eighteenth century that efforts were made to represent the sound in writing. From the mid-1730s it appears sporadically as ‹іо› or {{Unicode|‹і͡о›}}, a letter-combination which was officially adopted on 18 November 1783 at a session of the [[Russian Academy]] under the presidency of [[Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova|Princess Dashkova]], and it was used in the Academy Dictionary (1789–94), but never gained great popularity. The letter ‹ё› was first used in print in 1795 by the poet [[Ivan Dmitriev]], and was soon taken up by such influential writers as [[Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin]] and [[Derzhavin|Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin]], which assured its acceptance in the literary norm.<ref>Е. В. Пчелов, "Буква ё в русской азбуке и письменности",''Палеография и кодикология: 300 лет после Монфокона. Материалы'' (Ред. М. В. Бибиков и др.), Москва, 2008: стр.139-148</ref>

The [[diacritic]] {{unicode|◌̈}} does not appear above any other letter in Russian, nor does it serve any purpose except to differentiate between ‹е› and ‹ё›.

Except for a brief period after [[World War II]], the use of <ё> was never obligatory in standard Russian orthography. By and large, it is used only in pedagogical literature intended for children and for students of Russian as a second language, and in dictionaries. Otherwise <е> is used, and <ё> occurs only when it is necessary to avoid ambiguity (for example, to distinguish between все ('everybody') and всё ('everything') when it is not obvious from the context which is meant) or in words (principally proper names) the pronunciation of which may not be familiar to the reader. Recent recommendations (2006) from the Russian Language Institute are to use <ё> in proper nouns in order to avoid wrong pronunciation<ref name="par_5">«Правила русской орфографии и пунктуации. Полный академический справочник. Под ред. В. В. Лопатина», ЭКСМО, 2006. Стр. 20, § 5</ref>. It is perfectly permissible under the current standard to mark <ё> whenever it occurs, and this is the preference of some Russian authors and periodicals.

The fact that <ё> is frequently replaced with <е> in print often causes some confusion to both Russians and non-Russians, as it makes Russian words and names harder to transcribe accurately. One recurring problem is with Russian surnames, as both -ев (-ev) and -ёв (-yov) are common endings. Thus the English-speaking world knows two leaders of the former [[Soviet Union]] as [[Nikita Khrushchev|Khrushchev]] and [[Mikhail Gorbachev|Gorbachev]] though their surnames end in Russian with -ёв, better{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} transcribed ''-yov'' (which is why many English-speakers ''pronounce'' these names as if they end in -ov, even though they ''spell'' them with -ev). Some words and names have also changed in Russian because of the confusion — some have had their <ё> replaced with <е>, and some <е> replaced with <ё>. For example, the Russian word for "furniture", мебель, was evidently originally мёбель, as it comes from German ''Möbel''.

==Transcription of foreign words==
<Ё> can be used in [[Cyrillization|Russian transcription]] of foreign words originating from languages that use the sound {{IPA|/ø/}} eu/ö/ő/ø (Dutch, French, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Finnish, Hungarian), such as [[Gerhard Schröder]], whose last name is transliterated as <Шpёдep> (while the <ё>-less Bulgarian uses <ьo> for the same vowel). This letter is also often used for transcribing the English vowel {{IPA|/ɜr/}}, in such names as ''Burns'' (as in Роберт Бёрнс for [[Robert Burns]]) or [[Hearst]]/[[Hurst]]/[[Hirst]] (Хёрст).

However, the sound {{IPA-all|jo|}} in words from European languages is normally transcribed into Russian as <йо> in initial and post-vocalic position, and <ьo> after consonants, e.g. Нью-Йорк ('[[New York]]'), батальон ('battalion').

The letter <ё> is normally used to transcribe the Japanese <よ> into Russian Cyrillic, appearing in the [[Cyrillization of Japanese|Russian transcription of Japanese]] that would appear as ''yo'' (よ), ''kyo'' (きょ), ''sho'' (しょ) etc. in [[Hepburn Romanization]]. There are a few exceptions: for example, [[Yokohama]] is spelled in Russian with <Йо>, not <ё>. Similarly, <ё> is used to [[Kontsevich system|transcribe into Russian Cyrillic]] the Korean sounds [[Revised Romanization of Korean|romanized]] as ''yo''. However, the <ё> is not used in the [[Cyrillization of Chinese from pinyin|Russian transcription of the Chinese language]], as the syllable that is spelled ''you'' in [[pinyin]] is represented by <ю> in the standard Russian transcription, and ''yao'' is <яо>.

== Other East Slavic languages ==
In Belarusian and in Rusyn it is incorrect to replace <ё> with <е>.

==Dungan language ==
Unlike the Russian spelling system, <ё> is not optional in the Cyrillic alphabet used by the [[Dungan language]]. In that [[Sinitic]] language, the е/ё distinction is crucial, as the former is used to e.g. write the syllable that would have the [[pinyin]] spelling of ''yao'' in the [[Putonghua|Standard Chinese]], while the latter is used for the syllable that appears as ''ye'' in pinyin. <Ё> is very prominent in Dungan spelling, since the very common syllable that appears as ''yang'' in pinyin is spelled <ён> in Dungan.

== Criticism ==
In modern Russian language editors rarely use this letter and any reader can easily understand any text regardless of using or not using of letter Yo. Well-known designer and creativist Artemii Lebedev (Артемий Лебедев) is also against this letter {{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}

== See also ==
*[[E (Cyrillic)|Э, э - E (Cyrillic)]]
*[[Ë|Ë - Ë (Latin letter)]]
*[[O (Cyrillic)|О, о - O (Cyrillic)]]
*[[Epsilon (letter)|Ε, ε - Epsilon (Greek letter)]]
*[[E|E, e - (Latin letter)]]
*[[Reforms of Russian orthography]]
*[[Yoficator]]

== References ==

== External links ==
{{Wiktionary|Ё|ё}}
* {{Cite web
|url = http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=5774
|title = Town To Honor Forgotten Letter
|author = Kevin O'Flynn
|publisher = The St. Petersburg Times
}}

Yo (Cyrillic) - Revision history

KJV: Template:Donate

Nick: New page: {{Cyrillic alphabet navbox| Heading=Cyrillic letter Yo| Image=100px| uuc=0401|ulc=0451}} : ''Not to be confused with latinic [[Ë]...