ve (Cyrillic)

Both Ve and the Cyrillic letter Be (Б б) were derived from the Greek letter Beta (Β β), which already represented {{IPA|/v/}} in Greek by the time the Cyrillic alphabet was created.{{Cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=George L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6lQwRD2Cb8EC |title=The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets |last2=Moseley |first2=Christopher |date=2013-05-07 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-22296-3 |language=en}}

In the Early Cyrillic alphabet, its name was {{Script|Cyrs|вѣдѣ}} (vědě), meaning "I know". In the old Russian alphabet the name was vedi.{{Cite book |last1=Corbett |first1=Professor Greville |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euI4CQAAQBAJ |title=The Slavonic Languages |last2=Comrie |first2=Professor Bernard |date=September 2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-86137-6 |language=en}}

In the Cyrillic numeral system, it had the value of 2.

The cursive, handwritten, and italic forms look rounded like the capital letter, or the Greek letter beta ({{char|ϐ}}). This form is also used in Bulgarian forms.

In Russian and Bulgarian, Ve generally represents {{IPA|/v/}}, but at the end of a word or before voiceless consonants, it represents the voiceless {{IPA|[f]}}. Before a palatalizing vowel, it represents {{IPA|/vʲ/}}.

In standard Ukrainian pronunciation (based on the Poltava dialect), Ve usually represents [ʋ] in the word initial position (or preceding most vowels) and a sound like the English W ({{IPA|[w]}}) when in the word final position. Because of this, it is not uncommon to see words ending in {{angbr|в}} transcribed to end in {{angbr|w}}, for example, {{lang|uk|Владислав}} = Vladyslaw for Vladislav.

Additionally, some Ukrainians also use this pronunciation in words where the letter is directly preceded by a consonant, while for others all occurrences of the letter Ve denote {{IPA|[w]}}. In Eastern Ukraine, the letter Ve may represent a voiceless {{IPA|[f]}}, but this is considered a Russianism, as word-final devoicing does not occur in standard Ukrainian. For example, the standard Ukrainian pronunciation of the word {{lang|uk|сказав}} ([he] said) is {{IPA|/skazaw/}}. However, in Eastern Ukraine one is likely to hear the Russified {{IPA|[skazaf]}} (with final devoicing).

In Belarusian, the letter Ve represents only the sound {{IPA|/v/}}. In the word final position, or if directly proceeded by a consonant, it mutates to the letter Short U (Ў ў), a Belarusian letter representing the sound {{IPA|/w/}}. E.g., the Belarusian noun "language" is {{lang|be|мова}} (mova), but the adjectival form is {{lang|be|моўны}} (mowny), and the genitive plural of the noun (formed by removing the final {{angbr|а}}) is {{lang|be|моў}} (mow).

In Rusyn, the letter Ve represents the sound /v/, or /w/ if it is at the end of the word.

In Serbian and Montenegrin, the letter Ve represents only the sound /v/.

In Macedonian the letter is used for the sound /v/, but if the letter appears at the end of the word then it is pronounced as /f/. An example of this is the word бев [bɛf] ('I was').

In Tuvan, it is used for /ʋ/.

In Mongolian, Kalmyk, and Dungan, it is used for /w/.

• Β β : Greek letter Beta
• Б б : Cyrillic letter Be
• Ѵ ѵ : Cyrillic Letter Izhitsa
• B b : Latin letter B
• V v : Latin letter V
• W w : Latin letter W
• Ԝ ԝ : Cyrillic Letter We

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