Words: soft sign front yer
Part of speech: n
Definition: The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь, which in Old Church Slavonic represented a short (or "reduced") front vowel, and in modern languages serves to denote a soft (palatalized) consonant.
Example: The yers in weak position were lost, although not in some instances before palatalizing the preceeding consonant by the front yer b.