ім. Фр. Скарыны, 1929 ; Мн. : «Народная асвета», 1991 [факсімільн.]. – Выданьне пятае пераробленае і пашыранае. although it is also sometimes transcribed as . In native Belarusian words, is used after vowels and represents a , as in хлеў, pronounced (chleŭ, ‘shed’) or воўк (voŭk, ‘wolf’). This is similar to the in English cow . The letter cannot occur before a non-iotified vowel in native words (except compound words such as паўакна, ‘half a window’); when that would be required by grammar, is replaced by . Compare хлеў ( chleŭ, ‘shed’) with за хлявом ( za chlavóm, ‘behind the shed’). Also, when a word starts with an unstressed and follows a word that ends in a vowel, it forms a diphthong through liaison and it is written with instead. For example, у хляве ( u chlavié, ‘in the shed’) but увайшлі яны ў хлеў ( uvajšlí janý ŭ chleŭ, ‘they went into the shed’). According to the current official orthographic rules of 2008, proper names conserve the initial in writing, so the capital letter can occur only in all-capitals writing. Previous official orthographic rules (1959) also made exception for loanwords (каля універсітэта, ‘near the university’, now spelled каля ўніверсітэта). The unofficial 2005 standardization of Taraškievica allows the capital in proper names. In acronyms/initialisms, the word-initial becomes : ВНУ for вышэйшая навучальная ўстанова ‘higher education institution (university, college, institute)’. Also, becomes in name initials in Taraškievica. The letter is also sometimes used to represent the labial-velar approximant in foreign loanwords: this usage is allowed by the 2005 standardization of Taraškievica. When it is used thus it can appear before non-iotified vowels, does not require a preceding vowel, and may be capital. In poetry, word-initial and are sometimes used according to the rhythm of a poem. In this case, the capital may also occur. Uzbek This letter is the 32nd letter of the Uzbek Cyrillic alphabet. It corresponds to Oʻ in the current Uzbek alphabet. It is different from the regular O, which is represented by the Cyrillic letter О. Furthermore, it is pronounced as either or , in contrast to the letter O, which is pronounced as . In culture In September 2003, during the tenth Days of Belarusian Literacy celebrations, the authorities in Polatsk, the oldest Belarusian city, made a monument to honor the unique Cyrillic Belarusian letter . The original idea for the monument came from professor Paval