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IJ (lowercase ij; Dutch pronunciation: ⓘ; also encountered as Unicode compatibility characters IJ and ij) is a digraph of the letters i and j. Occurring in the Dutch language , it is sometimes considered a ligature , or a letter in itself.
The IJ (Dutch: ⓘ; sometimes shown on old maps as Y or Ye) is a body of water, formerly a bay, in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is known for being Amsterdam 's waterfront. Etymology
The Dutch alphabet in 1560, still including the long s. The modern Dutch alphabet, used for the Dutch language, consists of the 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Depending on how y is used, six (or five) letters are vowels and 20 (or 21) letters are consonants. In some aspects, the digraph ij behaves as a single letter.
In the Dutch alphabet, the digraph ij is sometimes written as a ligature and may be sorted with y (in the Netherlands, though not usually in Belgium); however, regardless of where it is used, when a Dutch word starting with ij is capitalized, the entire digraph is capitalized (IJmeer, IJmuiden).
For example, the oe in koekje or koekie becomes oo in cookie, [2] the ij (considered a vowel in Dutch) and the ui in vrijbuiter becomes ee and oo in freebooter, the aa in baas becomes o in boss, the oo in stoof becomes o in stove. As languages, English and Dutch are both West Germanic, and descend further back from the common ancestor language ...
Brouwerij 't IJ (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌbrʌu.əˈrɛi ət ˈɛi]; English: The IJ Brewery) is a small brewery in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is located in a former bath house named Funen, next to the De Gooyer windmill. Its name is in reference to the IJ in Amsterdam, the body of water considered to be city’s waterfront.
The daring heist occurred during the early hours of Saturday morning, according to Dutch police, who received a report of an explosion at 3:45 a.m. local time. Grainy CCTV footage shows suspects ...
Siegenbeek thought that the spelling should reflect refined Dutch pronunciation, taking into account the uniformity, etymology, and analogy. From the Siegenbeek spelling reforms, one gets the modern Dutch ij (called lange ij (long y) as distinct from the usually identically pronounced ei, called korte ei (short ei)).