| Ý | |
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| Ý ý | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin |
| Type | Alphabet |
| Sound values | /i/ /iː/ /j/ |
| In Unicode | U+00DD, U+00FD |
| History | |
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| Other | |
| Writing direction | Left-to-right |
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Ý (or ý) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. Its form is derived from the Latin letter Y (Y y) with the addition of an acute accent. It is used in Czech, Faroese, Icelandic, and the Turkmen alphabets, as well as romanizations of Russian. It is also used in Vietnamese as a borrowed letter pronounced with a rising high tone. It was previously used in Asturleonese, Old Norse, and Old Spanish.
Usage
[edit]In Icelandic, Ý is the 29th letter of the alphabet, between Y and Þ. It is read as /i/ (short) or /iː/ (long).[1]
In Turkmen, Ý represents the consonant /j/, as opposed to Y, which represents the vowel sound /ɯ/.[2]
In Kazakh, Ý was suggested as a letter for the voiced labio-velar approximant [w] (as well as the diphthongs /ʊw/ and /ʉw/); the corresponding Cyrillic letter is У. The 2021 revision proposed the letter U, with the letter U with a macron (Ū) for the U sound in Kazakh.
In the Czech and Slovak languages it represents a long form of the vowel y and cannot occur in initial position. It is pronounced /iː/, the same as Í; ý used to represent a distinct sound until it merged with the sound of í by the 15th century. Today it is used to distinguish homophones, such as vít (to weave) and výt (to howl) in Czech.[3][4]
In the Portuguese Language, the letter was used until 1911 in Portugal and 1947 in Brazil. Ý was used in words like: Proparoxýtona, Caýdos and Fýgo. Ý was later substituted by Í or Ì. Ý was used in words originating from the Greek Language.
In romanizations of the Russian language, Ý is used for Ы́, the letter Ы with a diacritic marking stress.
Other uses
[edit]In Vietnamese, Ý means "Italy". The word is a shortened form of Ý Đại Lợi, which comes from Chinese 義大利 (Yìdàlì in Mandarin, a phonetic rendering of the country's name).
Ý does not exist in Modern Spanish, but the letter has persisted in proper names like Aýna, a municipality in Albacete, Spain, and Baý, a municipality in Laguna, Philippines, where it is pronounced as [i].[5] Ý was used in Early Modern Spanish, and it can be observed by some archaic spellings such as the name Ýñigo[5] for Inigo or by the former spelling ýbamos for "íbamos" in older 16th–18th century Spanish writings.
Character mappings
[edit]| Preview | Ý | ý | ||
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| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE | LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 221 | U+00DD | 253 | U+00FD |
| UTF-8 | 195 157 | C3 9D | 195 189 | C3 BD |
| Numeric character reference | Ý | Ý | ý | ý |
| Named character reference | Ý | ý | ||
References
[edit]- ^ "Icelandic alphabet: The Unique Icelandic Letters". Iceland Complete. Archived from the original on 8 May 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ^ Clifton, John M. (2002). "Alphabets of ten Turkic languages". In Clifton, John M.; Clifton, Deborah A. (eds.). Comments on discourse structures in ten Turkic languages (PDF). St. Petersburg, Russia: North Eurasia Group, SIL International. pp. 293–295.
- ^ "Z historie českého pravopisu" [The history of Czech spelling]. Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech). Prague: Institute of the Czech Language. 2008–2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
- ^ "Letters i and y / Pronunciation and orthography". slovake.eu. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
- ^ a b "Novedades de la Ortografía de la lengua española (2010)" (PDF). Fundéu. 23 November 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2023.