(''I with bowl'') is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet. It was introduced in 1928 into the reformed

Yañalif Jaꞑalif, Yangalif or Yañalif (Tatar: jaꞑa əlifba/yaña älifba → jaꞑalif/yañalif, , Cyrillic: Яңалиф, "new alphabet") is the first Latin alphabet used during the latinisation in the Soviet Union in the 1930s for the Turkic languag ...

, and later into other alphabets for Soviet minority languages. The letter was designed specifically to represent the non-front close vowel sounds and . Thus, this letter corresponds to the letter in modern Turkic alphabets.

Usage

The letter was originally included in the

, and later also included in the alphabets of the

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, Ingrian, Komi, Tsakhur, Azerbaijani and Bashkir languages, as well as in the draft reform of the Udmurt alphabet. During the project of the Latinization of the Russian language, this letter corresponded to the Cyrillic letter . In alphabets that used this letter, the lowercase B was replaced by a small capital so that there would be no confusion between and . Alfavit2.jpg, New Turkic alphabet (''

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Unified Northern Alphabet The Unified Northern Alphabet (UNA) (russian: Единый северный алфавит) was created during the Latinisation in the Soviet Union for the "small" languages of the North. Systematic work on the development of writing in the lan ...

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Encoding

The letter I with bowl has not been adopted into Unicode, despite repeated applications, because of the concern that encoding it could open the door to “duplicating the whole Cyrillic alphabet as Latin letters”.The latest proposal was revised in response to this concern. Instead, computer users can substitute similar letters, either Ь ь or Ƅ ƅ (Latin letter tone six, the letter that was previously used in the Zhuang alphabet to denote the sixth tone ).

References

{{Latin script Romanization Latin alphabets 1928 establishments in the Soviet Union