Re: Yers (was Re: Apologies)

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.




Paul

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