Ya (Cyrillic)

Ya (capital Я, tiny я) is the thirty-third and last letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.

Linguistics

In Russian, this letter represents its /ja/ (notation of the API). In this language, it is also about the personal pronoun “I”.

History

Letter Я is an hybrid of two letters. The first is a Ligature letter І and А, in a way similar to the letters Ю and Ѥ. The second is the Petit yus (Ѥ). With the wire of time, the phonetic distinction between ІА and Ѥ were lost and when the civil writing was introduced in 1708, letter Я was substituted to them.

Data-processing representation

  • Unicode :

    • Capital Я: U+042F
    • Tiny я: U+044F

See too

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