I with macron (Cyrillic)
Cyrillic letter
Long I or I with macron (Ӣ ӣ; italics: Ӣ ӣ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Tajik, it represents a stressed close front unrounded vowel /i/ at the end of a word. In Kildin Sami on the Kola Peninsula and Mansi in western Siberia, it represents long /iː/. Both these sounds are pronounced like the ee in “feet”. In those languages, vowel length is distinctive, and the macron marks the long version of vowels.
I with macron is also used in Aleut (Bering dialect). It is the sixteenth letter of the modern Aleut alphabet. It looks similar to the Short I (Й й Й й) and often written identically in some cursive scripts. It is also used to substitute this letter in some fonts.
I with macron also appears in the Bulgarian and Serbian languages.
01Usage
South Slavic languages
I with macron is used in some of the South Slavic languages, mainly Bulgarian and Serbian for two-syllable offset based on the old Slavic accent law, to become easy for the accent analogy to pass in separate words, to become lexical. as the analogy passed through three-syllable oxytones with a tonal pattern: тетӣвà. I with macron is also sometimes used as a form of Short I.
02Computing codes
| Preview | Ӣ | ӣ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER I WITH MACRON |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I WITH MACRON | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1250 | U+04E2 | 1251 | U+04E3 |
| UTF-8 | 211 162 | D3 A2 | 211 163 | D3 A3 |
| Numeric character reference | Ӣ | Ӣ | ӣ | ӣ |
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Cyrillic letter I with Macron.svg by Пакко, Public domain
- Ӣ used to stylistically Й Russian Kazakh sign toilet.jpg by Malik Nursultan B, CC BY-SA 4.0
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