Yae or Yæ (Ԙ ԙ; italics:
''Ԙ ԙ'') is an archaic letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
,
a ligature of
Я (Ya) and
Е (E); я and е.
Yae was used in the old alphabet of the
Mordvinic languages
The Mordvinic languages, also known as the Mordvin, Mordovian or Mordvinian languages (, ''mordovskiye yazyki''),
are a subgroup of the Uralic languages, comprising the closely related Erzya language and Moksha language, both spoken in Mordovia ...
, where it represented the sequence , like the pronunciation of in "yak".
Computing codes
See also
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Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version , Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU+A64 ...
References
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