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Ьь
Name ер малък
Sounds like no sound of its own; ьо = yo as in canyon
In Latin letters y
Four faces
- Ьь Print
- Ьь Bulgarian print
- Ьь Italic
- Handwriting
coming
Words
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From French chauffeur: one of the few words with ь.
Remember it
The small yer: half a b, no sound of its own, it makes the next о into yo.
Trap
Only ever before о (шофьор, каньон). Never at the end of a word, unlike Russian.
Try it
Three one-tap exercises come next: hear → tap the letter · see the letter → choose the sound · read a word → choose the picture.
Recordings: Lingua Libre speakers on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC0). A dotted ▶ means your phone's own Bulgarian voice speaks, because no native recording exists yet.