Gw mau tau Di bahasa Belarusia modern dari E (Kiril)

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.