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[ob-ivan.livejournal.com]

Hello here. I have a question 'bout classification of Russian letters.

Should we treat Й as a vowel or as a consonant?

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[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

It's funny that we have a similar letter in English: Y.

Remember the cereal Alpha-Bits: "A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y!"

...Sometimes Y? Really now...

Yeah, I go with mystache with the "'soft consonant,' whatever that is."

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

You used an instance of the sometimes y: "funny." It's not fun-yuh, it's fun-ee.

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

I never said it was pronounced "fun-yuh." Y is always pronounced as eej, for example in "you," one would say "eeju." Although I don't like using js because they make it seem as if they're pronounced in another way. You know what I mean.

Besides, a letter should never be bi-consonovocal (made-up word). It is either a consonant or a vowel, and any letter saying so otherwise would just be lying to itself.