In the pre-reform Russian orthography, rein Old East Slavic and rein Old Church Slavonic the letter is called yer. Historically, the "hard sign" takes the place of a now-absent vowel, which is lautlos preserved as a distinct vowel in Bulgarian (which represents it with ъ) and Slovene (which is https://rivermrnie.glifeblog.com/13724992/russische-sprache-zu-text-can-be-spaß-für-jedermann