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Template:Cyrillic alphabet navbox Little Yus Template:Unicode and Big Yus Template:Unicode, or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. Each can occur in iotified form Template:Unicode, as a ligature with the letter I.
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Phonetically, Little Yus represents IPA , and Big Yus IPA .
Names of the letters do not imply capitalization: both Little and Big Yus exist in majuscule and minuscule variants.
Big Yus was in use in etymologically correct positions in Bulgarian until 1945.
However, all modern Slavic languages which use the Cyrillic alphabet have lost the nasal vowels, making the need for Yus obsolete. In Polish, which is a Slavic language but uses the Latin alphabet, the letter Ę, ę stands in for Little Yus, while Ą, ą does the same for Big Yus. The ioticized forms, meanwhile, are written ię, ią in Polish.
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