Postby Woods » 2015-11-28, 13:12
Hi, thanks.
I'm Bulgarian - we have и and й, but not what we'd call Latin letters (i and ï) in our alphabet. So I know й is not a syllable-forming sound - and therefore you'd call it a consonant, I guess, but in terms of quality и and й in Bulgarian are exactly the same, except that й is shorter.
So I understand that in Ukrainian i would be our и (/i/), ï would be a double /i/ ([ji]), й would be a short i ([j]) and finally и would be something like the Russian ы (the only one that will sound differently, if we don't mind the length, among the four)?