Dotted and dotless I

İ and ı are two letters of the Latin alphabets of the Turkic languages ​​Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Tatar, Kazakh and Kyrgyz.

  • The © is an uppercase letter, the lowercase equivalent is the i. It describes the front vowel / i /.
  • The ı is a lowercase letter, the uppercase equivalent of the I. It describes the back vowel / ɯ / ( Voiced velar approximant ).

In contrast to most other Latin -based alphabets denote accordingly I and i two different sounds. The German I and i therefore correspond to the Turkish İ i and

Typographical consequences

Exist with respect to the realization of ligatures for fonts that are intended for Turkish texts, problems in the typography. In the successions of example, f and i and ı, where the i- point in the first case usually merges with a point -like extension of the f -loop, f i ( fi ) and f ı (FI ) is hardly distinguishable.

( based on it for letters with diacritics, inter alia, see list of Latin -based alphabets )

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  • Latin letter
  • Turkish language
Letter (alphabet) Crimean Tatar language Kazakh language Typographic ligature 2 3 IJ (digraph)
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