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Dotless 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.

Not to be confused with Latin iota or Small capital i.

Dotless I

Latin script

alphabetic

Turkish language

[ɯ]
[ɪ]

U+0049, U+0131

I i
  • I ı

1928 to present

İ i

Left-to-Right

In scholarly writing on Turkic languages, ï is sometimes used for /ɯ/.[1]

(ы), a letter used to represent [ɯ] in Turkic languages with Cyrillic script, and the similar [ɨ] in Russian

Yery

a letter that represented [ɯ] in the Latin-based Yañalif alphabet used for the Turkic languages of the former Soviet Union prior to those languages' adoption of Cyrillic

I with bowl

Unicode chart

Tex Texin, , accessed 15 Nov 2005

Internationalization for Turkish: Dotted and Dotless Letter "I"