Timeline for What is the function of the soft sign (Ь) in Russian?
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| May 2, 2017 at 1:48 | vote | accept | Mad Banners | ||
| Apr 24, 2017 at 10:26 | comment | added | David Garner | @IllidanS4 you'd need to explain what 'softening' means. Otherwise, you're just saying 'the soft sign indicates softening'. | |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 1:42 | comment | added | IS4 | @Anixx Of course, thanks, I always mix them up in English... | |
| Apr 22, 2017 at 10:33 | comment | added | Anixx | @IllidanS4 the preceding consonant | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 19:05 | comment | added | IS4 | The function is being a letter (changing the meaning of a word), the effect is softening the preceding vowel. | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 15:25 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackLinguist/status/855442375346409472 | ||
| Apr 21, 2017 at 9:40 | answer | added | Constantine Geist | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 9:27 | answer | added | Yellow Sky | timeline score: 27 | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 8:27 | comment | added | Be Brave Be Like Ukraine | We recently had a similar question at Ukrainian.SE. The phonology of "soft sign" is equal between the Russian and Ukrainian languages. Briefly, the "soft sign" has derived from an ancient short "i" vowel, but then reduced to a phonological aspect (palatalization) that affects the preceding consonant. | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 7:41 | history | asked | Mad Banners | CC BY-SA 3.0 |