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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 ]
Ÿ 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]. In some names, a diaeresis is used to indicate two vowels historically in hiatus, although the second vowel has since fallen silent, as in Saint-Saëns ...
may be impossible to pronounce [10] ɏ barred y: close central compressed vowel: ÿ ɏ small capital barred y: near-close central compressed vowel: ʏ̈: ұ barred straight y (Cyrillic straight u) near-close near-back unrounded vowel [ʊ̜] or [ɯ̽] used in Mande studies [11] ̣ underdot: retroflex or r-colored vowels: ɑ˞ o˞ etc. k', t ...
The form ÿ is common in Dutch handwriting and also occasionally used in printed text – but is a form of the digraph "ij" rather than a modification of the letter y . Komi and Udmurt use Ӧ (a Cyrillic O with two dots) for [ə]. The Swedish, Finnish and Estonian languages use Ä and Ö to represent [æ] and [ø]
In addition, y and ÿ are occasionally used instead of Dutch IJ and ij , although this spelling is archaic. In German orthography , the pronunciation /yː/ has taken hold since the 19th century in classical loanwords – for instance in words like typisch /ˈtyːpɪʃ/ 'typical', Hyäne , Hysterie , mysteriös , Syndrom , System , and Typ .
Spectrogram of [ʏ]. The near-close front rounded vowel, or near-high front rounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʏ , a small capital version of the Latin letter y, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is Y.
In print, the letter ÿ (lowercase y with diaeresis) and ij look very different, but handwriting usually makes ÿ, ij and Y, IJ look identical. However, since y occurs only in loanwords, the letter ÿ is extremely rare (if not altogether nonexistent) in Dutch. The long ij extends below the baseline and so is written with a long stroke. It is ...
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.