Russian
In the Russian language, the use of izhitsa became progressively rarer during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was only one word with relatively stable spelling with izhitsa: мѵро (müro, 'myrrh') and its derivatives. The orthographic reforms of 1917-1918 do not mention the letter at all, so it “died” with no formal act.
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