Re: Yers (was Re: Apologies)

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Paul Bennett wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:07:40 -0800, Apollo Hogan <apollo@...>
> wrote:
>
> > For example, I have a book printed in 1944
> > (Jordan Jovkov's "Staroplaninski Legendi".)  In there, the yers are
> > silent
> > when word-final, as in Russian.  There is also still used two other
> > signs,
> > which I've forgotten the names of, so I'll draw little pictures:
> > ---
> > \ /
> > /|\   which is usually corresponds to  'yer' (but is used in 'ca' [they]
> > are)
> > / | \
> > and
> >
> > |
> > -+-
> > |
> > |\   which usually corresponds to 'e'
> > | \
> > ---
>
> If I'm reading your diagrams correctly, that's "Big Yus" and "Yat", Unicode
> U+046A/046B Ѫ/ѫ and U+0462/0463 Ѣ/ѣ repectively.
Yes, thanks.  (Corresponding to OCS nasalized [o] and to OCS [&] resp.)

--Apollo