Dotless I

Not to be confused withLatin iotaorSmall capital i.

I,orı,calleddotless i,is a letter used in theLatin-script Alpha betsofAzerbaijani,Crimean Tatar,Gagauz,Kazakh,TatarandTurkish.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 İwhile not using the basicLatin letter I.

Dotless I
I ı
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alpha betic
Language of origin	Turkish language
Sound values	[ɯ] [ɪ]
InUnicode	U+0049, U+0131
History
Development	I i I ı
Time period	1928 to present
Sisters	İ i
Other
Writing direction	Left-to-Right

In scholarly writing onTurkic languages,ïis sometimes used for/ɯ/.

In computing

Main article:Dotted and dotless I in computing

Character information

Preview	I		ı
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I		LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	73	U+0049	305	U+0131
UTF-8	73	49	196 177	C4 B1
Numeric character reference	I	I	ı	ı
Named character reference			ı, ı
ISO 8859-9	73	49	253	FD
ISO 8859-3	73	49	185	B9

Usage in other languages

A bilingual Chipewyan (Dënësųłınë́) sign atLa Loche Airportin Saskatchewan, Canada, with dotlessi.

The dotlessımay also be used as a stylistic variant of the dottedi,without there being any meaningful difference between them.

This is common in olderIrishorthography, for example, but is simply the omission of thetittlerather 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 languagesof theNorthwest Territoriesin Canada, specificallySlavey,DogribandChipewyan,all instances ofiare undotted to avoid confusion with tone-marked vowelsíorì.

Lowercase dotlessıis used as the lowercase form ofthe letter Íin the officialKarakalpakAlpha bet approved in 2016.

Both the dotted and dotless I can be used in transcriptions ofRusynto allow distinguishing between the lettersЫandИ,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".

See also

• Dotless j
• Yery(ы), a letter used to represent[ɯ]in Turkic languages with Cyrillic script, and the similar[ɨ]in Russian
• I with bowl,a letter that represented[ɯ]in the Latin-basedYañalifAlpha bet used for the Turkic languages of the former Soviet Union prior to those languages' adoption of Cyrillic

External links

• Unicode chart
• Tex Texin,Internationalization for Turkish: Dotted and Dotless Letter "I",accessed 15 Nov 2005