Dotless I
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Not to be confused with Latin iota or Small capital i.
I, or ı, called dotless i, is a letter used in the Latin-script alphabets of Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Kazakh, Tatar and Turkish. It commonly represents the close back unrounded vowel /ɯ/, except in Kazakh where it represents the near-close front unrounded vowel /ɪ/. All of the languages it is used in also use its dotted counterpart İ while not using the basic Latin letter I.
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Dotless I | |
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I ı | |
Usage | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Type | alphabetic |
Language of origin | Turkish language |
Phonetic usage | [ɯ] [ɪ] |
Unicode codepoint | U+0049, U+0131 |
History | |
Development | I i
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Time period | 1928 to present |
Sisters | İ i |
Other | |
Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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In scholarly writing on Turkic languages, ï is sometimes used for /ɯ/.[1]