Iotation

Iotation is a form of palatalization which occurs in Slavic languages. In most of them, iotated consonants are called soft consonants and the process of iotation is called softening.

There are more letters which serve the same function, but their glyphs are not made in the same way.

Cyrillic letters for iotated sounds

When Vuk Karadžić reformed the Serbian language (the system still largely influential over the Macedonian language), he created new letters which represent iotated consonants. This was possible because in Serbian and Macedonian only a few consonants can be iotated. Though it might seem logical, the letters themselves are not called "iotated letters" or by any similar name.

See also

* Cyrillic alphabet
* Palatalization
* Soft sign
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