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I
(
named
i
, plural
ies
)
[1]
is the nint
letter
an a
vowel
in the
ISO basic Latin alphabet
.
Egyptian hieroglyph ?
|
Phoenician
Yodh
|
Etruscan
I
|
Greek
Iota
|
|
|
|
|
In
Semitic
, the letter mey hae originatit in a
hieroglyph
for an airm that representit a
voiced pharyngeal fricative
(
/?/
) in
Egyptian
, but wis reassigned tae
/j/
(as in Inglis "
y
es") bi Semites, acause thair wird for "airm" began wi that soond. This letter coud an aa be uised tae represent
/i/
, the
close front unrounded vowel
, mainly in foreign wirds.
The Greeks adoptit a fairm o this
Phoenician
yodh
as thair letter
iota
(?Ι, ι?) tae represent
/i/
, the same as in the
Auld Italic alphabet
. In Latin (as in Modren Greek), it wis an aa uised tae represent
/j/
an this uise persists in the leids that descendit frae Latin. The modren letter '
j
' wis firstly a variation o 'i', an baith wur uised interchyngeably for baith the vowel an the consonant, comin tae be differentiated anly in the 16t century. The dot ower the lawercase 'i' is whiles cried a
tittle
. In the
Turkish alphabet
,
dotted an dotless I
are considered separate letters, representin a front an back vowel, respectively, an baith hae uppercase ('I', '
?
') an lawercase ('ı', 'i') fairms.
In modren Inglis, 'i' represents different soonds, aither a "lang" diphthong
/a?/
as in
kite
, which developed frae Middlin Inglis
/iː/
efter the
Great Vowel Shift
o the 15t century, or the "short"
/?/
as in
bill
.
The letter 'I' is the fift maist common letter in the
Inglis leid
. It is an aa uised in mathematics tae denote the
imaginary unit
Character
|
I
|
i
|
Unicode name
|
LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER I
|
LATIN SMAA LETTER I
|
Encodins
|
decimal
|
hex
|
decimal
|
hex
|
Unicode
|
73
|
U+0049
|
105
|
U+0069
|
UTF-8
|
73
|
49
|
105
|
69
|
Numeric chairacter reference
|
I
|
I
|
i
|
i
|
EBCDIC
faimily
|
201
|
C9
|
137
|
89
|
ASCII
1
|
73
|
49
|
105
|
69
|
- 1
An aa for encodings based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.
Relatit letters an ither similar characters
[
eedit
|
eedit soorce
]
- ↑
Brown & Kiddle (1870)
The institutes of English grammar,
p. 19.
Ies
is the plural of the English name of the letter; the plural of the letter itself is rendered I's,
I
s, i's, or
i
s.
- Media relatit tae
I
at Wikimedia Commons
- The dictionar defineetion o
I
at Wiktionary
- The dictionar defineetion o
i
at Wiktionary