Timeline for What function does the soft sign ь have in a word like учишься?
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| Sep 25, 2013 at 19:23 | comment | added | Netch | @КуЪ historically there was not reduced sound, but full -и in -ши (and -си in athematic verbs: даси, еси). It is still kept in church tradition. Eliminating of this -и happened generally later than reducents falling. So, the reason to keep -ь is totally orthographic without any real historic grounding. | |
| Sep 17, 2013 at 14:38 | comment | added | КуЪ | Говорят, на месте мягкого знака в славянских языках был сверхкраткий звук "и", затем он редуцировался, звук "ш" был смягчённым; затем "ш" отвердел, но мягкий знак остался. Когда была реформа, которая отменила "ъ" после твёрдых согласных, хотели "ь" после "ш" в окончаниях глаголов во 2 л. ед.ч. тоже отменить, но почему-то этого не сделали, хотя сторонники такого решения до сих пор есть. | |
| Sep 17, 2013 at 12:45 | vote | accept | joshualotz | ||
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| Sep 17, 2013 at 12:29 | comment | added | Artemix | @joshualotz In old times there was a phrase that the only meaning of letter ѣ (which sounded at that time exactly as letter е) is to distinguish literate from illiterate. I think this is the answer for your question as well. | |
| Sep 17, 2013 at 11:14 | comment | added | joshualotz | OK, I understand the example with "туш" and "тушь" because the ь distinguishes in writing two words with different meaning/gender that otherwise have the same pronunciation. But is there any 'reason' to have ь in учишься other than orthographic tradition? If I wrote учишся without ь, would it be confused with another word? Basically, I'm wondering 'why' we bother to write the ь in this case? | |
| Sep 17, 2013 at 10:44 | history | answered | КуЪ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |