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yer
noun
Either of two letters in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.
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jɛɹ
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noun
Either of two letters in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.
“For determining whether a yer is strong or weak, it is necessary to break the continuous flow of speech into individual words, or prosodic units (phrases which have only a single stressed syllable, and typically include a preposition or other clitic words).”
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For determining whether a yer is strong or weak, it is necessary to break the continuous flow of speech into individual words, or prosodic units (phrases which have only a single stressed syllable, and typically include a preposition or other clitic words).
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