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Akan'ye and Ikan'ye don't exist in Ukrainian.

The fact is that there are more vowels in English than in Russian. Over the centuries the vowel system in Russian reduced, so now we have only а е/э о у и ы.
The vowel in "hot" is more open and...

I suppose in a way that make Belarussian easier for foreigners, as if there is an O in the word, or an Э (Э is common in Belarussian, unlike Russian), you know that's the stressed sylable. But then...

Did you know that in Belarussian, Akan'ye is also reflected in orthography?

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Oh really?[/quote]

Yes. He can hardly grasp the simple concept of O reduction, and you go saying the sound is a cross between A and Э and Ы. The guy can probably not even pronounced Ы yet :P

I suppose spoken language was before writing. So who got the idea to write "o" in place of this letter?[/quote]

That's a really stupid question.
But anyway:

O used to be pronounced O all the...

Olya you've just confused the poor person.

The sound Olya is trying to describe is called a Schwa, which is the sound the a in the English Sofa has.

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