| Dotless I | |
|---|---|
| I ı | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin script |
| Type | alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Azerbaijani language,Chipewyan language,Crimean Tatar language,Gagauz language,Karakalpak language,Turkish language |
| Sound values | |
| In Unicode | U+0049, U+0131 |
| History | |
| Development | I i
|
| Time period | 1928 to present |
| Sisters | İ i |
| Other | |
| Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
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I, orı, calleddotless i, is a letter used in theLatin-script alphabets ofAzerbaijani,Crimean Tatar,Gagauz,Kazakh,Tatar andTurkish. It commonly represents theclose back unrounded vowel/ɯ/, except in Kazakh where it represents thenear-close front unrounded vowel/ɪ/. All of the languages it is used in also use itsdotted counterpart İ while not using the basicLatin letter I.
In scholarly writing onTurkic languages,ï is sometimes used for/ɯ/.[1]
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The dotlessı may also be used as a stylistic variant of the dottedi, without there being any meaningful difference between them.
This is common in olderIrish orthography, for example, but is simply the omission of thetittle rather than a separate letter. The í is a separate letter as is ì in Scottish Gaelic. Though historically Irish only used an "i" without a dot, so as to not confuse with "í", this dotless "ı" should not be used for Irish. Instead a font with "i" in the normal location should be used that has no dot. See other old-style Irish letters and the symbol for & still used in modern Irish text andIrish orthography.
In some of theAthabaskan languages of theNorthwest Territories in Canada, specificallySlavey,Dogrib andChipewyan, all instances ofi are undotted to avoid confusion with tone-marked vowelsí orì.
Lowercase dotlessı is used as the lowercase form ofthe letter Í in the officialKarakalpak alphabet approved in 2016.
Both the dotted and dotless I can be used in transcriptions ofRusyn to allow distinguishing between the lettersЫ andИ, which would otherwise be both transcribed as "y", despite representing different phonemes. Under such transcription the dotted İ would represent the CyrillicІ, and the dotless I would represent either Ы or И, with the other being represented by "Y".