Venethian

General info and alpabet
Venethian language uses Cyrillic alphabet named Азъбука ['azɤbuka] by its first two letters: Аа (азъ ['azŏ], means 'I') and Бб (бука ['buka], means 'letter, writing symbol'). Venetian alphabet consists of 40 letters and contains:
 * 9 letters for vowels.
 * 25 letters for consonants. 16 of them can be both palatalized and not palatalized, 9 nine of them fixed in palatalized/unpalatalized states, 8 eight of last ones form pairs.
 * 5 letters for stable consonant clusters. Three of them are combinations of syllabic consonants and palatal approximant, so they can be considered rather syllable then consonant cluster.
 * Specific letter Ьь stands for short /i/ and its semivowel counterpart /j/, as well as playing role of palatalization marker - /ʲ/, depending on case.

As /j/
Ьь has phonetic value of palatal approximant in following cases:
 * 1) At the begging of word. Examples:
 * 2) *Ьодъ /j'odŏ/ - 'iodine'.
 * 3) *Ьемен /jem'en/ - 'Yemen'.
 * 4) *Ьогурт /j'ogurt/ - 'yougurt'
 * 5) After vowel, if not at the end of the word. Examples:
 * 6) *Маька /m'ajka/ - 'a t-shirt'.
 * 7) *Лужаька /luʒ'ajka/ - 'a little meadow'.
 * 8) *Маьами /maj'ami/ - 'Miami'.

As palatalization marker
Ьь marks palatalization of consonant if written after the consonant (C) before the vowel. (V). CьV /CʲV/. Examples: However, digrafs ль, мь, нь turn into љ, њ, ꙧ correspondingly, if both following conditions fulfilled: Examples:
 * Полье /p'olʲe/ - 'a field'
 * Желанье /ʒel'anʲe/ - 'a wish'
 * Знанье /zn'anʲe/ - 'a knowledge'
 * л/м/н are preceded by consonants by consonant or placed in the beginning of word.
 * ь is not at the end of the word.
 * (Земльа→)Земља /zemˌl̩j'a/ - 'The Earth, a land, a ground', but земельнѡ /zem'elĭnø/ - 'earthly'.

On the other hand, some sounds change significantly in case of patalization, so their ь-digraphs are replaced by specific letter. Frequently any of those letters are stable, and can be found in places, where ь usually don't play role of palatalizer.
 * Зь→S

Nouns
Nouns declined to three genders, two numbers, nine cases and definiteness.

Genders
All people, animals and supernatural beings as well as unanimated objects that depict them are divided into three genders. Male gender for males. Female gender for females. Neuter gender for objects of unknown gender and kids. All living creatures that are not people or animals, or supernatural beings, as well as unanimated objects that are not depiction of animals or people, or supernatural beings belong to neuter gender.

Animacy
Nouns of neuter gender differ in animacy. In singular number accusative case is the same to genitive for animate nouns and similar for nominative for inanimate nouns.