1 History

Ya is actually a hybrid of two historic letters. One is A iotified (IA), a ligature of Ukrainian I and A (Cyrillic), similar to letters Yu (Ю) or Iotified E (Ѥ). The other is Little Yus (Ѧ). Over time, phonetic distinction between IA and Ѧ was lost, and when Peter IPeter I may mean: Peter I, Duke of Bourbon Peter I, Duke of Brittany Peter I of Russia Peter I of Serbia. introduced his "civil script" in 1708Events March 23 James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth Kandahar conquered by Mir Wais In Masuria one third of the population die during the plague September 28: Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya J. Bach appointed, the single letter Ya (Я) substituted for both. So, Я is a late addition to the Cyrillic alphabet. It does not exist in the GlagoliticThe Glagolitic alphabet or Glagolitsa is the oldest known Slavonic alphabet. It was created by Saint Cyril around 862- 863 in order to translate the Bible and other texts into the Slavonic language (more exactly, Old Church Slavonic). The name comes from, GreekThe Greek language is written in the Greek alphabet developed in classical times (around the 9th century BC) and passed down to the present. In ancient Greece, its letters were also used to represent numbers, called Greek numerals, in analogy with Roman n or LatinThe Latin alphabet also called the Roman alphabet is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world, the standard script of the English language and most of the languages of western and central Europe, and of those areas settled by Europeans. alphabets, it has no numerical value and no name other than "Ya".

In UnicodeIn computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. This includes all scripts still in active use today, many scripts known only by scholars, and sy, Я shares codepoints with IA ( A iotified). The actual glyphA glyph is a carved figure or character, incised or in relief; a carved pictograph; hence, a pictograph representing a form originally adopted for sculpture, whether carved or painted. Augustan English scholars of the early 18th century, imitating French depends on the font.

2 Code positions

Character encoding	Case	Binary	Hexadecimal	Octal	Decimal
Unicode	Capital	0000010000101111	042F	2057	1071
	Small	0000010001001111	044F	2117	1103
KOI	Capital	11110001	F1	361	241
	Small	11010001	D1	321	209
Windows 1251	Capital	11011111	DF	337	223
	Small	11111111	FF	377	255
ISO 8859-5	Capital	11001111	CF	317	207
	Small	11101111	EF	357	239

Its HTML entity is Я or Я for capital and я or я for small letter.

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