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Latin letter I with dieresis


Ï, lowercase ï, is a symbol used in various languages written with the Latin alphabet; it can be read as the letter I with diaeresis, I-umlaut or I-trema.

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Initially in French and also in Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, Galician, Southern Sami, Welsh, and occasionally English, ï is used when i follows another vowel and indicates hiatus in the pronunciation of such a word. It indicates that the two vowels are pronounced in separate syllables, rather than together as a diphthong or digraph. For example, French maïs (IPA: [ma.is], maize); without the diaeresis, the i is part of the digraph ai: mais (IPA: [], but). The letter is also used in the same context in Dutch, as in Oekraïne (pronounced [ukraːˈinə], Ukraine), and English naïve (/nɑːˈv/ nah-EEV or /nˈv/ ny-EEV).

In scholarly writing on Turkic languages, ï is sometimes used to write the close back unrounded vowel /ɯ/, which, in the standard modern Turkish alphabet, is written as the dotless i ı.[1] The back neutral vowel reconstructed in Proto-Mongolic is sometimes written ï.[2]

In the transcription of Amazonian languages, ï is used to represent the high central vowel [ɨ].

It is also a transliteration of the rune .

Computing

Lowercase ï is often seen in the sequences � and , which are the Unicode replacement character and byte order mark, respectively, in UTF-8 misinterpreted as ISO-8859-1 or CP1252 (both common encodings in software configured for English-language users). Thus, it tends to indicate that any following mojibake can be corrected by reinterpreting the data as UTF-8.

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See also


References

  1. Marcel Erdal, A Grammar of Old Turkic, Handbook of Oriental Studies 3, ISBN 9004102949, 2004, p. 52
  2. Juha Janhunen, ed., The Mongolic Languages ISBN 0415681545, p. 5

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