Í, í ( i- acute) is a letter in the Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak,

Dobrujan Tatar Dobrujan Tatar is the Tatar language of Romania. It includes Kipchak dialects, but today there is no longer a sharp distinction between the dialects and it is mostly seen as one language. This language belongs to the Kipchak Turkic languages, ...

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, and

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s, where it often indicates a long /i/ vowel (''ee'' in English word ''feel''). This form also appears in Catalan, Irish,

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, Portuguese,

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, Aragonese, Galician, Leonese,

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, and

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as a variant of the letter "i". In

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, the

long i Long i ( or '' itterai longa''), written , is a variant of the letter i found in ancient and early medieval forms of the Latin script. History In inscriptions dating to the early Roman Empire, it is used frequently but inconsistently to transc ...

is used instead of for a long i-vowel.

Usage in various languages

Chinese

In Chinese

pinyin Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...

í is the ''yángpíng'' tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of “i”.

Dobrujan Tatar

Í is the 12th letter of the

Dobrujan Tatar alphabet The Dobrujan Tatar alphabet is the writing system of Dobrujan Tatar. Since 1956 Dobrujan Tatar uses this alphabet, including the letters Á, Ç, Ğ, Í, Î, Ñ, Ó, Ş and Ú. Alphabet Literary Tatar Tatar spoken in Romania has two ...

, represents the hight unrounded half-advanced ATR or soft vowel /ɨ/ as in "bír" ̶ɨr̶'one'. At the end of the word it is pronounced with half open mouth undergoing dilatation "Keñiytúw" and becoming mid unrounded half-advanced ATR or soft /ə/, also known as schwa, as in "tílí" ̶ɨl̶ə'his tongue'.

Faroese

Í is the 11th letter of the

Faroese alphabet Faroese orthography is the method employed to write the Faroese language, using a 29-letter Latin alphabet, although it does not include the letters C, Q, W, X and Z. Alphabet The Faroese alphabet consists of 29 letters derived from the Latin s ...

and represents .

Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Czech and Slovak

Í is the 16th letter of the

Hungarian alphabet The Hungarian alphabet (, ) is an extension of the Latin alphabet used for writing the Hungarian language. The alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet, with several added variations of letters, consisting 44 letters. Over the 26 letters of the ...

, the 12th letter of the Icelandic alphabet, the 16th letter of the

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and the 18th letter of the

Slovak alphabet The first Slovak orthography was proposed and created by the Slovak Catholic priest Anton Bernolák (1762–1813) in his ''Dissertatio philologico-critica de litteris Slavorum'', used in the six-volume ''Slovak-Czech-Latin-German-Hungarian Dicti ...

. It represents .

Ibero-Romance & Italian

Ibero-Romance The Iberian Romance, Ibero-Romance or sometimes Iberian languages Iberian languages is also used as a more inclusive term for all languages spoken on the Iberian Peninsula, which in antiquity included the non-Indo-European Iberian language. are ...

languages, the "í" is not considered a letter, but the letter "i" with an accent. It is used to denote an "i" syllable with abnormal stress. In Italian, Í/í is a variant of I carrying an acute accent; it represents an /i/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it is the last letter of the word except in dictionaries or when a different pronunciation may affect the meaning of a word: ''víola'' ("violates", ) and ''viòla'' ("violet", ).

Karakalpak

Í is the 13th letter of the

Karakalpak alphabet Karakalpak () is a Turkic language spoken by Karakalpaks in Karakalpakstan. It is divided into two dialects, Northeastern Karakalpak and Southwestern Karakalpak. It developed alongside Nogai and neighbouring Kazakh languages, being markedly influ ...

. It represents . Its preferred lowercase form is .

Vietnamese

Vietnamese alphabet The Vietnamese alphabet (, ) is the modern writing script for the Vietnamese language. It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages like French language, French, originally developed by Francisco de Pina (1585–1625), a missionary from P ...

í is the tone (high-rising tone) of “i”.

Character mappings

References

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