Dotless I

Dotless I
I ı
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
Typealphabetic
Language of originTurkish language
Sound values[ɯ]
[ɪ]
In UnicodeU+0049, U+0131
History
Development
I i
  • I ı
Time period1928 to present
Sistersİ i
Other
Writing directionLeft-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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.

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

  1. ^ Erdal, Marcel (2004). A Grammar of Old Turkic. Boston: Brill. p. 52. ISBN 9004102949.