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).[1] 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.
I with macron also appears in the Bulgarian and Serbian languages.
Usage
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.[2][3] I with macron is also sometimes used as a form of Short I.
Computing 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 |
See also
- И и : Cyrillic letter I
- Й й : Cyrillic letter Short I
- Ī ī : Latin letter I with macron – a Latvian, Latgalian, Livonian, and Samogitian letter
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References
- ^ Головко, Е. В. (1994). Словарь алеутско-русский и русско-алеутский (беринговский диалект) [Aleut-Russian and Russian-Aleut Dictionary (Bering dialect)]. Отд-ние изд-ва "Просвещение". p. 14. ISBN 5-09-002312-3.
- ^ "Accent in Bulgarian dialects". October 25, 2012.
- ^ "Bulgarian dialects". May 9, 2013.
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