front yer 1
noundomain: communication
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Definition
The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь, which in Old Church Slavonic represented a short (or "reduced") front vowel, and in modern languages serves to denote a soft (palatalized) consonant.
Examples
- 1.The yers in weak position were lost, although not in some instances before palatalizing the preceeding consonant by the front yer b.


