Yu (Cyrillic)
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| Cyrillic letter Yu | ||||||
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| Image:Cyrillic letter Yu.png | ||||||
| Cyrillic alphabet | ||||||
| А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Ѓ | Д |
| Ђ | Е | Ё | Є | Ж | З | Ѕ |
| И | І | Ї | Й | Ј | К | Ќ |
| Л | Љ | М | Н | Њ | О | П |
| Р | С | Т | Ћ | У | Ў | Ф |
| Х | Ц | Ч | Џ | Ш | Щ | Ъ |
| Ы | Ь | Э | Ю | Я | ||
| Non-Slavic Letters | ||||||
| Ӑ | Ә | Ӕ | Ҕ | Ӗ | Ғ | Ӏ |
| Ӂ | Җ | Ӝ | Ҙ | Ӟ | Ӡ | Ӣ |
| Ӥ | Ҡ | Қ | Ҟ | Ҝ | Ң | Ҥ |
| Ө | Ӧ | Ҧ | Ҫ | Ҷ | Ҹ | Ӵ |
| Ҽ | Ҿ | Ҩ | Ҳ | Һ | Ҭ | Ҵ |
| Ӳ | Ӯ | Ү | Ұ | Ӱ | ||
| Archaic letters | ||||||
| Ҁ | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѻ | Ѣ | ІА |
| Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ |
| Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | ||||
Yu (Ю, ю) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing either the combination /ju/ (a so-called iotated vowel) or /u/ after a palatalized consonant.
Apart from the form I-O, in early Slavonic manuscripts the letter appears also in a mirrored form O-I. It is this form that is probably original, precisely displaying the Greek combination omicron-iota (οι). At the time the Greek alphabet was adapted to the Slavonic language (giving rise to the Cyrillic alphabet), this was pronounced as a Close front rounded vowel |/y/ in educated Greek speech. This digraphic representation of /y/ was so basic for speakers of Greek that the simple letter upsilon (υ) representing the same sound came to be called υ ψιλόν (y psilon) 'simple y' in contrast to 'complex' οι.
Probably in analogy to the 'iotated' letters Ѥ, ІА, Ѩ and Ѭ, which fulfilled similar functions in Slavonic, this OI ligature was soon mirrored to the modern form Ю.br:Ю (lizherenn) ko:Ю it:Ю (Cirillico) ja:Ю nn:Ю pl:Ю pt:Yu ru:Ю (кириллица) fi:Ю sv:Ю zh:Ю
