Saft sign
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The saft sign (Ь, ь, italics Ь, ь; Roushie: мягкий знак Roushie pronunciation: [ˈmʲæxʲkʲɪj znak]) an aa kent as the front yer or front er, is a letter o the Cyrillic script. In Auld Kirk Slavonic, it representit a short (or "reduced") front vowel. As wi its companion, the back yer ‹ъ›, the vowel phoneme that it designatit wis later partly dropped an pairtly merged wi ither vowels.
In the modren Slavic Cyrillic writin seestems (aw East Slavic leids an Bulgarie an Kirk Slavic), it disna represent an individual soond but indicates palatalisation o the precedin consonant.