   little yus (), or jus, are letters of the cyrillic script, representing two common slavonic nasal vowels in the early cyrillic and glagolitic alphabets. each can occur in iotified form (), formed as ligatures with the letter decimal i (Ð). other yus letters are blended yus (), closed little yus () and iotified closed little yus (). thumb|100px|left|cyrillic little yus (left) and big yus (right); normal forms (above) and iotified (below) thumb|75px|left|handwritten little yus phonetically, little yus represents a nasalized front vowel, possibly , while big yus represents a nasalized back vowel, such as ipa . this is also suggested by the appearance of each as a 'stacked' digraph of 'am' and 'om' respectively. the names of the letters do not imply capitalization: both little and big yus exist in majuscule and minuscule variants. all modern slavic languages that use the cyrillic alphabet have lost the nasal vowels, making yus unnecessary. big yus was a part of the bulgarian alphabet until 1945. however, by that time in the eastern dialects the back nasal was pronounced the same way as Ñ . because the language is based mainly on them, the western pronunciations were deemed unliterary and the letter was removed. there are some bulgarian dialects around thessaloniki and kastoria in northern greece that still preserve a nasal pronunciation: , 'where are you going, dear child?'). in russia, little yus was adapted to represent the iotated  Ñ in the middle or end of a word; the modern letter Ñ is an adaptation of its cursive form of the seventeenth century, enshrined by the typographical reform of 1708. (this is also why Ñ in russian often corresponds to nasalized Ä in polish; cf. russian Ð¿ÑÑÑ; polish piÄÄ.) in polish, which is a slavic language written with latin alphabet, the
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