Name of The Letter
- Old Church Slavonic: ѥрь (yerĭ)—meaning of the word is unknown
- Church Slavonic: єрь (yer')
- Bulgarian: ер малък ('small yer'), whereas the hard sign ‹ъ› is named ер голям ('big yer')
- Russian: мягкий знак ('soft sign'), or (an archaic, mostly pre-1917 name) ерь
- Ukrainian: м’який знак ('soft sign')
- Belarusian: мяккі знак ('soft sign')
- Serbian (and all its variants): tanko jer / танко јер ('thin yer'), or simply jer/јер ('yer')—whereas the hard sign ‹ъ› is named debelo jer / дебело јер ('thick yer') or simply jor / јор ('yor')
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