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This term comes from "Old (Church) Slavonic language" linguistics, where there were "iotated" letters [ja], [je], nasal [ja] (--->я in Russian) and nasal [jo] (----> ю in Russian).[/quote]

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By European J, I was referring to the sound made by the German letter J- such as in the name Jan (pronounce Yan)!
Seems prtty straightforward!
I still don't get why ye makes the ye sound in nyet...

That's what I have done with other languages ie German. That is really a good idea- to start trying to pronounce the language using an easier to pronounce dialect. I know that (with German at least)...

I have some questions about iotated vowels (ye, ya, yo, yu). I know that they make the iotated sound when they are in the first letter or initial position as well as after vowels. The thing is, I'm...