Ï, lowercase ï, is a symbol used in various languages written with the Latin alphabet; the Latin letter I with a diacritic of two dots, which may be read as I with diaeresis.[1]
Initially in French and also in Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, Galician, Southern Sami, Welsh, and rarely English, ⟨ï⟩ is used when ⟨i⟩ follows another vowel and indicates hiatus in the pronunciation of such a word. It indicates that the two vowels are pronounced in separate syllables, rather than together as a diphthong or digraph. For example, French maïs (IPA: [ma.is] ⓘ; "maize"); without the diaeresis, the ⟨i⟩ is part of the digraph ⟨ai⟩: mais (IPA: [mɛ] ⓘ; "but"). The letter is also used in the same context in Dutch, as in Oekraïne (pronounced [ukraːˈ(j)inə] ⓘ *and not [uˈkrɑinə]; "Ukraine"), and English naïve (/nɑːˈiːv/ nah-EEV or /naɪˈiːv/ ny-EEV).
In scholarly writing on Turkic languages, ⟨ï⟩ is sometimes used to write the close back unrounded vowel /ɯ/, which, in the standard modern Turkish alphabet, is written as the dotless i ⟨ı⟩.[2] The back neutral vowel reconstructed in Proto-Mongolic is sometimes written ⟨ï⟩.[3]
In the transcription of Amazonian languages, ⟨ï⟩ is used to represent the high central vowel [ɨ].
It is also a transliteration of the rune ᛇ.
Computing[edit]The symbol is encoded in Unicode with these codepoints:
U+00CF Ï LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS U+00EF ï LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS See also[edit] Umlaut (diacritic) Yi (Cyrillic) (Ї ї) References[edit] ^ "C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement" (PDF). pp. 11–12. ^ Marcel Erdal, A Grammar of Old Turkic, Handbook of Oriental Studies 3, ISBN 9004102949, 2004, p. 52 ^ Juha Janhunen, ed., The Mongolic Languages ISBN 0415681545, p. 5 vteLatin script History Spread Romanization Roman numerals Ligatures Alphabets (list) Classical Latin alphabet ISO basic Latin alphabet Phonetic alphabets International Phonetic Alphabet X-SAMPA Spelling alphabet Letters (list) Letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz Additional Latin letters Æ æ Ɑ ɑ Ʌ ʌ Ꞵ ꞵ Ð ð Ɛ ɛ Ə ə Ǝ ə Ɣ ɣ Ƣ ƣ Ɩ ɩ Ɥ ɥ Ŋ ŋ Œ œ Ɔ ɔ ɤ Kʼ ĸ Ʀ ʀ ẞ ß Ʃ ʃ Ɯ ɯ Ʊ ʊ Ꞷ ꞷ Ʋ ʋ Ƿ ƿ Ȝ ȝ ϴ θ Ʒ ʒ Ƹ ƹ Þ þ Ȣ ȣ Ꭓ ꭓ Ɂ ʔ ɂ ʕ ǀ ǁ ǂ ǃ ʘ ʻ ʼ Ꞌ ꞌ 3 Ꜫ ꜫ Ꜭ ꜭ 7 Letter I with diacritics Í í i̇́ Ì ì i̇̀ Ĭ ĭ Î î Ǐ ǐ Ï ï Ḯ ḯ Ĩ ĩ i̇̃ Į į Į́ į̇́ Į̃ į̇̃ Ī ī Ī̀ ī̀ Ỉ ỉ Ȉ ȉ I̋ i̋ Ȋ ȋ Ị ị Ꞽ ꞽ Ḭ ḭ Ɨ ɨ ᶖ 𝼚 İ i I ı Ь ь Ɪ ɪ Letters using umlaut or diaeresis sign ( ◌̈, ◌̤ ) Ää C̈c̈ Ëë Ḧḧ Ï ï N̈n̈ Öö S̈s̈ T̈ẗ Üü Ṳṳ Ẅẅ Ẍẍ Ÿÿ MultigraphsDigraphs Ch Dz Dž Gh IJ Lj Ll Ly Nh Nj Ny Sh Sz Th Trigraphs dzs eau Tetragraphs ough PentagraphstzschKeyboard layouts (list) QWERTY QWERTZ AZERTY Dvorak Colemak BÉPO Neo Historical standards ISO/IEC 646 Western Latin character sets Current standards Unicode DIN 91379: Unicode subset for Europe Lists Precomposed Latin characters in Unicode Letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks Diacritics Palaeography
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