below.: 24 The Yaghnobi Alphabet was same as Tajik but with Ԝ. Notes to Cyrillic: The letter й never appears at the beginning of a word. Words beginning
nineteenth century, the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet was used due to Slavic influence after the Roman retreat. A Cyrillic alphabet was also used for Romanian
occasionally Romanized as y, consistent with the BGN/PCGN romanization of Russian Cyrillic. Turkologists and Altaicists tend to transcribe the vowel as ï, or as ɨ
distinction. (But note that Russian shows early development of *CelC > *ColC and *CĭlC > *CŭlC, obscuring the front-back differences in these sequences.) As with