![]() The medieval Cyrillic alphabet had 43 letters. When computers are used, the form is frequently substituted by ⟨'⟩. ![]() In pre-Second World War printing, the form ⟨‘⟩ was used. The apostrophe is not considered a letter and so is not taken into account for alphabetical order. ![]() ( ⟨і⟩ is the palatalizing version of ⟨ы⟩, and arguably, they represent a single phoneme). When a consonant is not palatalized and precedes /j/, the apostrophe ⟨'⟩ is used to separate the iotated vowel: ⟨п'я п'е п'і п'ё п'ю⟩ /pja pjɛ pi pjɔ pju/. Palatalization of consonants is usually indicated through choice of vowel letter, as illustrated here with /p/ and /pʲ/, both written with the letter ⟨п⟩: ⟨Ў⟩ is not a distinct phoneme but the neutralization of /v/ and /l/ when there is no following vowel, like before a consonant or at the end of a word. ![]() In some representations of the alphabet, the affricates are included in parentheses after the letter ⟨д⟩ to emphasize their special status: ⟨… Дд (ДЖдж ДЗдз) Ее …⟩. The ⟨ ґ⟩ is used by some for the latter sound but, with the exception of Taraškievica, has not been standard.Ī ⟨д⟩ followed by ⟨ж⟩ or ⟨з⟩ may denote either two distinct respective sounds (in some prefix-root combinations: па д-земны, а д-жыць) or the Belarusian affricates ⟨дж⟩ and ⟨дз⟩ (for example, па дзея, джала). Officially, the ⟨г⟩ represents both / ɣ/ and / ɡ/, but the latter occurs only in borrowings and mimesis. ![]()
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