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In Mongolian Kalmyk and Dungan it is used for w Additionally some Ukrainians also use this pronunciation in words where the letter is directly preceded by a consonant while for others all occurrences of the letter Ve denote w In Belarusian the letter Ve represents only the sound v In Macedonian the letter is used for the sound v but if the letter appears at the end of the word then it is pronounced as f Inherited from Old Slovak v from Proto Slavic 97 vъ n Both Ve and the Cyrillic letter Be Б б почему человек зевает derived from the Greek letter Beta which already represented v in Greek by the time the Cyrillic alphabet was created In the old Russian alphabet the name was vedi In Tuvan it is used for In Russian and Bulgarian Ve generally represents v but at the end of a word or before voiceless consonants it represents the voiceless f In the Cyrillic numeral system it had the value of 7