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ÿ is a Latin script character composed of the letter Y and the diaeresis diacritical mark. It occurs in French as a variant of ï in a few proper nouns, as in the name of the Parisian suburb of L'Haÿ-les-Roses [la.i le ʁoz] and in the surname of the house of Croÿ [kʁu.i]. [1]
South Efate, Yanesha, Old English abbreviation, Latin abbreviation P̄ p̄: P with macron: Bislama, Kharosthi Transliteration, Hebrew romanization, Thai transliteration P̆ p̆: P with breve: Uralic Dialectology, Laz Ṗ ṗ: P with dot above: Irish (old orthography) P̈ p̈: P with diaeresis: Manichaean transliteration P̋ p̋: P with double ...
Latin Small Letter T with diaeresis U+1E98 ẘ Latin Small Letter W with ring above U+1E99 ẙ Latin Small Letter Y with ring above U+1E9A ẚ
The lists and tables below summarize and compare the letter inventories of some of the Latin-script alphabets.In this article, the scope of the word "alphabet" is broadened to include letters with tone marks, and other diacritics used to represent a wide range of orthographic traditions, without regard to whether or how they are sequenced in their alphabet or the table.
Latin velar-coronal sequences like this (and also cl cr ct gd gl gr x ) underwent a palatal mutation to varying degrees in most Italo-Western Romance languages. For most languages that preserve the gn spelling (such as Italian and French ), it represents a palatal nasal /ɲ/ (or more precisely /ɲː/ in Italian), and is similarly used in ...
The diaeresis diacritic indicates that two adjoining letters that would normally form a digraph and be pronounced as one sound, are instead to be read as separate vowels in two syllables. For example, in the spelling "coöperate", the diaeresis reminds the reader that the word has four syllables co-op-er-ate, not three, *coop-er-ate.
The letter Y when introduced was probably called "hy" /hyː/ as in Greek, the name upsilon not being in use yet, but this was changed to i Graeca ("Greek i") as Latin speakers had difficulty distinguishing its foreign sound /y/ from /i/. Z was given its Greek name, zeta. This scheme has continued to be used by most modern European languages ...
Latin Small Letter T with diaeresis: U+1E98 ẘ Latin Small Letter W with ring above U+1E99 ẙ Latin Small Letter Y with ring above U+1E9A ẚ Latin Small Letter A with right half ring U+1E9B ẛ Latin Small Letter Long S with dot above: 0667 for Fraktur, Irish Gaelic, Old English: Medievalist: U+1E9C ẜ Latin Small Letter Long S with ...