Ä°, or i, called dotted I or
i-
dot
A dot is usually a small, round spot.
Dot, DoT or DOT may also refer to:
Orthography
* Full stop or "period", a sentence terminator
* Dot (diacritic), a mark above or below a character (e.g. ȧ, ạ, İ, Ċ, ċ, etc.), usually to indicate sou ...
, is a letter used in the
Latin-script alphabets
The lists and tables below summarize and compare the letter inventories of some of the Latin-script alphabets. In this article, the scope of the word "alphabet" is broadened to include letters with tone marks, and other diacritics used to represen ...
of
Azerbaijani,
Crimean Tatar,
Gagauz,
Kazakh,
Tatar
Tatar may refer to:
Peoples
* Tatars, an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar"
* Volga Tatars, a people from the Volga-Ural region of western Russia
* Crimean Tatars, a people from the Crimea peninsula by the B ...
, and
Turkish. It commonly represents the
close front unrounded vowel
The close front unrounded vowel, or high front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound that occurs in most spoken languages, represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet by the symbol i. It is similar to the vowel sound in the Englis ...
except in Kazakh in which it additionally represents the
voiced palatal approximant
The voiced palatal approximant is a type of consonant used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ; the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is j, and in the Americanist phonetic notation i ...
and the diphthongs and . All languages that use it also use its
dotless counterpart I, but not the basic
Latin letter I.
In computing
The dotted I is encoded into Unicode with the code point U+0130 (U+0069 for the lowercase letter) as part of the
Latin Extended-A
Latin Extended-A is a Unicode block and is the third block of the Unicode standard. It encodes Latin letters from the Latin ISO character sets other than Latin-1 (which is already encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block) and also legacy characte ...
block.
Issues
The dotted and dotless I characters have caused issues in computing. Languages like Turkish have four variants of the letter I (as opposed to two in English). This causes problems when, instead of the original mapping of ''i'' to ''I'', Turkish maps ''i'' to the new ''İ'', and ''ı'' to ''I'', frequently breaking software logic.
Usage in other languages
Both the dotted and dotless I can be used in transcriptions of
Rusyn to allow distinguishing between the letters
Ы and
И, which would otherwise be both transcribed as "y", despite representing different phonemes. Under such transcription the dotted İ would represent the Cyrillic
І, and the dotless I would represent either Ы or И, with the other being represented by "Y".
See also
*
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 , except in Kazakh where it represents the ...
, the letter's dotless counterpart
*
References
{{Latin script, I, dot
I-dot
Turkish language
I