U with diaeresis (Cyrillic) explained

U with diaeresis (Ӱ ӱ; italics:

Ӱ ӱ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, derived from the Cyrillic letter U (У у У у).

U with diaeresis is used in the alphabets of the Altai, Khakas, Khanty, Mari and Shor languages, where it represents the close front rounded vowel pronounced as //y//, the pronunciation of the Latin letter U with umlaut (Ü ü) in German. It is also used in the Komi-Yodzyak language.

Usage

The Cyrillic U with diaeresis was formally used in the Rusyn language^[1] and used in the Cyrillization of Albanian.

See also

• Ü ü : Latin U with diaeresis - an Azerbaijani, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Turkish, and Turkmen letter
• Ư ư : Latin letter U with horn, used in Vietnamese alphabet
• Y y : Latin letter Y
• Ӳ ӳ : Cyrillic letter U with double acute
• Ү ү : Cyrillic letter Ue
• Ұ ұ : Cyrillic letter straight U with stroke (Kazakh mid U)
• U u: Latin letter U, same sound in French, Icelandic and Dutch
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode

References

1. Web site: Ecolinguist. March 16, 2020. Carpatho Rusyn Language Can Ukrainian speakers understand? #1 feat. @myhal-k. Youtube.

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