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Yery or Yeru (uppercase: Ы; lowercase: ы; italics: Ы ы) is a Cyrillic letter used as a ligature of Cyrillic letters soft sign (Ь ь) and soft-dotted I (І і) or palochka (Ӏ Ӏ). Yery was used in the languages of Europe and the Russian Far East: Mari, Russian, and 60 more languages used in the Russian language. It is a sound vowel of IPA with [ɨ] and /ɨ/.
Yeru with Back Yer (uppercase: Ꙑ; lowercase: ꙑ; italics: Ꙑ ꙑ) is a variant for the sound of [ɨɨ] in old Church Slavonic with Cyrillic historically and in modern Church Slavonic, is a letter in the Cyrillic script. It represents the close central unrounded vowel /ɨɨ/(more rear or upper than i) after non-palatalised (hard) consonants in the Early Cyrillic and Old Church Slavonic alphabets.