was phased out in the second half of the 19th century.<ref>Hlushchenko, V. Yer, yery (ЄР, ЄРИ). Ukrainian Language. Encyclopedia (Izbornik).</ref> According to the Ukrainian academician Hryhoriy Pivtorak, the letter was replaced with so called "Cyrillic i" , which in Ukrainian represents the sound , which appeared by the merger of the earlier sounds [ɨ] and [i]. Ukrainian also had newly developed the sound [i] from various origins, which is represented by ("Cyrillic dotted i"). Yery could be found in several earlier versions of the Ukrainian writing system that were introduced in the 19th century among which were "Pavlovsky writing system", "Slobda Ukraine (New) writing system", and "Yaryzhka". In Rusyn In Rusyn, it denotes a sound that is a bit harder than and similar to the Romanian sound î, which is also written â''. In some cases, the letter may occur after palatalised consonants ( "blue", which never happens in Russian), and it often follows , , and . In Turkic languages The letter is also used in Cyrillic-based alphabets of several Turkic and Mongolic languages (see the list) for a darker vowel . The corresponding letter in Latin-based scripts are (dotless I), and I with bowl (Ь ь). In Tuvan, the Cyrillic letter can be written as a double vowel. Related letters and other similar characters И и : Cyrillic letter I Й й : Cyrillic letter Short I Ъ ъ : Cyrillic letter Yer Ь ь : Cyrillic letter Soft sign Ҍ ҍ : Cyrillic letter semisoft sign Ѣ ѣ : Cyrillic letter yat I ı : Latin letter Dotless I Ь ь : Latin letter I with bowl Ư ư : Latin letter U with horn, the 26th letter of the Vietnamese alphabet. Y y : Latin letter Y Computing codes References Russian: An interactive online reference grammar, by Dr Robert Beard External links Cyrillic ligatures