Category talk:Belarusian terms spelled with Ў

Hi. What's the purpose of this cat? --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 04:41, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
 * It's kind of silly... I wanted to find the words that had this letter, because it is only found in Belarusian, even though it's a regular letter of the alphabet, unlike the things in Category:English terms by their individual characters. Perhaps it should be deleted. — Eru·tuon 04:47, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it is a regular letter, sometimes alternates with "у" in initial positions and "л" in final positions and is pronounced /w/. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 05:21, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I've decided there's no need to delete the category. Some languages just have categories for unusual characters, others for more regular letters. For instance, Category:Spanish terms spelled with Ü: Ü is the way to spell after  before e or i. And Japanese has categories for every kanji. So, it isn't a problem to have a category for a somewhat interesting regular letter in Belarusian. (Another reason for creating the category is that earlier on I wanted to find examples of the letter or phoneme for East Slavic languages. I had already found an example, but maybe I will find a better one now that the category exists.) — Eru·tuon 08:21, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Belarusian has little attention, so you may get away with it, especially if you find it useful. Of interest is, as you probably know, -
 * Pairs like ўсход/усход, which are considered the same word or forms of the same word.
 * Verbs in the past tense - ён ве́даў/яна́ ведала (he knew/ she knew) - compare Ukrainian він знав/вона́ зна́ла, Russian он знал/она́ зна́ла, Polish (on) wiedział/(ona) wiedziała (both roots are well known in West and East Slavic languages).
 * Slavic cognates where it can be u, v or l in other languages - compare with the Polish ł or Ukrainian "в" in final positions - pronounced as [w], which makes it very different from Russian, where it's reduced to [f]. It's often unpredictable how Polonisms are going to be borrowed into Belarusian or Ukrainian - e.g. Polish is  in Belarusian. I would expect  but it's  in Ukrainian. Ukrainian  is also used but seldom. In loanwords from English, it often matches [w] (not in front of vowels) or [u] or [ou] or [au] in diphthongs.--Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 08:45, 20 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi. If @Erutuon's interest in the category has expired, this category can be dropped. It's a regular and common letter in Belarusian. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 10:07, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I removed the lines from Module:uk-be-headword that added this category. Benwing2 (talk) 00:58, 2 July 2020 (UTC)