Yi (Cyrillic)
Yi(Ї ї; italics:Ї ї) is a letter of theCyrillic script.Yi is derived from the Greek letteriotawithdiaeresis.
It was the initial variant of the Cyrillic letterІі,which saw change from two dots to one in 18th century, possibly inspired by similar Latin letter i. Later two variants of the letter separated to become distinct letters in the Ukrainian Alpha bet.
It is used in theUkrainian Alpha bet,thePannonian Rusyn Alpha bet,and thePrešov Rusyn Alpha betof Slovakia, where it represents theiotatedvowel sound/ji/,like the pronunciation of⟨yea⟩in "yeast ". As the historical variant of the Cyrillic Іі it represented either /i/ (asiinpizza) or /j/ (asyinyen).
In variousromanization systemsofUkrainian,їis represented by Latin lettersioryi(word-initially),[1][2]yi,[3]ji,or evenï.[4]
It was formerly also used in theSerbian CyrillicAlpha bet in the late 1700s and early 1800s, where it represented the sound/j/;in this capacity, it was introduced byDositej Obradovićbut eventually replaced with the modern letterјbyVuk Stefanović Karadžić.[5][6]
In Ukrainian, the letter was introduced as part of theZhelekhivkaorthography,in Yevhen Zhelekhivsky's Ukrainian–German dictionary (2 volumes, 1885–86).
Related letters and other similar characters
[edit]- Ӥ ӥ:Cyrillic letter I with diaeresis
- Ï ï:Latin letter I with diaeresis
- Ι ι:Greek letter Ι
- Ј ј:Cyrillic letter J
Computing codes
[edit]Preview | Ї | ї | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YI | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YI | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1031 | U+0407 | 1111 | U+0457 |
UTF-8 | 208 135 | D0 87 | 209 151 | D1 97 |
Numeric character reference | Ї |
Ї |
ї |
ї |
Named character reference | Ї | ї | ||
KOI8-U | 183 | B7 | 167 | A7 |
Code page 855 | 141 | 8D | 140 | 8C |
Code page 866 | 244 | F4 | 245 | F5 |
Windows-1251 | 175 | AF | 191 | BF |
ISO-8859-5 | 167 | A7 | 247 | F7 |
Macintosh Cyrillic | 186 | BA | 187 | BB |
References
[edit]- ^Romanization System In Ukraine
- ^Romanization Of Ukrainian. BGN/PCGN 2019 Agreement
- ^BGN/PCGN 1965
- ^Ukrainian romanization table, The Library of Congress
- ^Maretić, Tomislav.Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika.1899.
- ^Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović.Pismenica serbskoga iezika, po govoru prostoga narod’a,1814.
External links
[edit]The dictionary definition ofЇat Wiktionary
The dictionary definition ofїat Wiktionary
- Ager, Simon."Ruthenian (Rusyn/Русин)".Omniglot: the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages.Retrieved11 Apr2012.
- Ager, Simon."Ukrainian (Українська)".Omniglot: the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages.Retrieved11 Apr2012.