Yae (Cyrillic) Explained

Yae or Yæ (Ԙ ԙ; italics:

Ԙ ԙ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, a ligature of Я (Ya) and Е (E); я and е.

Yae was used in the old alphabet of the Mordvinic languages, where it represented the sequence pronounced as /[jæ]/, like the pronunciation of (ya) in "yak".^[1]

See also

• Cyrillic characters in Unicode

References

1. Web site: Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS. Everson, Michael. 2007-03-21. en. 1139558740. 2017-10-11.

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