letter was re-invented in the 20th century for Kildin Sami.) It is also used to represent a stressed in languages such as English, which can cause a problem of conflating with English (for example, "Addison" and "Edison" would be spelled the same). However, in other positions, Russian also uses for and for . In modern Belarusian Unlike Russian, Belarusian has many native words in which it occurs after a hard consonant. Moreover, its orthography was standardized later than that of Russian (which reached its present form at the beginning of the 20th century), on the basis of the spoken language rather than historical tradition. Consequently, and are written in accordance with pronunciation: for initial and after hard consonants, for initial and postvocalic and after soft consonants. That also means that is much more frequent in Belarusian than in Russian. In other languages In Tuvan the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel. In the Tajik language, the letters е and э have the same function, except that э is used at the beginning of a word (ex. Эрон, "Iran"). In Mongolian, э is the standard letter to represent the /ɛ/ phoneme. It is often written doubled to represent the /eː/ phoneme. Е, however, is only used in the few Mongolian words containing it, Russian loanwords and Russian-style transcriptions of foreign names. Related letters and other similar characters Е е : Cyrillic letter Ye Є є : Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye Ε ε : Greek letter Epsilon E e : Latin letter E É é : Latin letter E with acute Ė ė : Latin letter E with overdot - a Lithuanian letter ℈ : Scruple (Apothecaries' system) Computing codes References External links Vowel letters