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Yery or Yeru (Ы, ы, usually called "Ы" [ɨ] in modern Russian) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the phoneme /i/ after non-palatalized (hard) consonants in the Belarusian, Rusyn and Russian alphabets. Because of phonological processes, the actual realization of /i/ after most consonants (д, з, л, н, р, с, т, or ц) is retracted to a close central unrounded vowel [ɨ], or [ʷi] after the labials б, в, м, п. The letter cannot appear after any of the other consonants not already listed, or after vowels; in such cases, и replaces it in its grammatical functions. Like many Cyrillic letters, originally the letter yery was formed from a ligature ꙑ—formed from Yer ъ and і (formerly written either dotless or with two dots) or Izhe (и, whose former letterform resembled н). In medieval manuscripts, it is almost without exception found as ъі or ъи. Once the letters ъ and ь subsequently lost their values as vowels in the Slavic languages, the current simplified form ы evolved. 
The letter is usually Romanized in English and most other West-European languages as y, e.g. Krylov (family name, Крылов), although it may be used for other purposes as well (in combinations), this spelling matches Polish where Latin y represents the same sound, Russian ы is used to transliterate Polish words with y into Cyrillic (e.g. Maryla - Марыля). There are several proper and common nouns of non-Russian origin (including some geographical names in Russia) with beginning with the letter: Ytyk-Kyuyol (Ытык-Кюёль), Ygyatta (Ыгыатта), a village and a river in Sakha (Yakutia) Republic respectively, and Eulji Mundeok (Ыльчи Мундок), a Korean military leader, though this is pronounced as if it were spelled with и. Yery is no longer found in the Ukrainian alphabet. [edit] References
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