я̈

Russian

Letter

я̈ • (jǫ) (lower case, upper case Я̈)

  1. (obsolete, pre-1918 spelling) The letter я with a diaeresis.

Usage notes

In the pre-1918 orthography, the letter я (ja) was pronounced like ё (jo) in the words ея (jeja) and нея (neja). A diaeresis was optionally used to indicate this, similarly to ѣ̈ (jǒ) and ё. The reform has replaced every instance of that letter by ё.

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