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No, because the question he was asking was:
People were saying that when a soft vowel comes after a consonant, the consonant is soffened and the hard vowel is pronounced:
Совет = C + O + Вь + Э + Т...

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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He wasn't asking that, he was saying why is there a ye SOUND in nyet. Not why is nyet spelt with a ye.

With certain consonants the y sound is much more audible than with other consonants, due to the position of the mouth where they are produced.
Soft N has a much more audible y sound than that of...

By the /j/ sound, do you mean as in English Jam, or as in the German Jan?

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)...

Why would you want to speak like a Georgian? Georgia isn't as good as Azerbaijan, and that is based on fact.

It's Jotated (pronounced Yotated).

It means the vowel has an initial Y sound.

Baysickly Е Ё Ю Я are pronounced ye yo yu ya at the beginning of a word, after a vowel, after a znak (hard or soft...