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In Latin, Y was named I graeca ("Greek I"), since the classical Greek sound /y/, similar to modern German ü or French u, was not a native sound for Latin speakers, and the letter was initially only used to spell foreign words. This history has led to the standard modern names of the letter in Romance languages – i grego in Galician, i grega in Cata...
The oldest direct ancestor of English letter Y was the Semitic letter waw (pronounced as [w]), from which also come F, U, V, and W. See F for details. The Greek and Latin alphabets developed from the Phoenicianform of this early alphabet. Since Late Middle English, the letter Y came to be used in a number of words where earlier Middle English spell...
English
As /j/: 1. at the beginning of a word as in yes 2. at the beginning of a syllable before a vowel as in beyond, lawyer, canyon As /aɪ/: 1. under stress in an open syllable as in my, type, rye, lying, pyre, tyre, typhoon 2. in a stressed open syllable as in hyphen, cycle, cylon 3. in a pretonic open syllable as in hypothesis, psychologist 4. word-finally after a consonant, as in ally, unify As /i/: 1. without stress at the end of multi-syllable word, as in happy, baby, lucky, accuracy 2. used a...
Other languages
⟨y⟩ represents the sounds /y/ or /ʏ/ (sometimes long) in the Scandinavian languages. In Danish and Swedish, its use as a semivowel is limited to loanwords, whereas in Norwegian, it appears as a semivowel in native words such as høyre /²hœʏ̯.rə/. In Dutch and German, ⟨y⟩ appears only in loanwords and proper names. In Dutch, it usually represents /i/. It may sometimes be left out of the Dutch alphabet and replaced with the ⟨ij⟩ digraph. In addition, ⟨y⟩ and ⟨ÿ⟩ are occasionally used instead of...
Other systems
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, ⟨y⟩ corresponds to the close front rounded vowel, and the related character ⟨ʏ⟩ corresponds to the near-close near-front rounded vowel. The SI prefix for 1024 is yotta, abbreviated by the letter Y.
Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
1. Y with diacritics: Ý ý Ỳ ỳ Ŷ ŷ Ÿ ÿ Ỹ ỹ Ẏ ẏ Ỵ ỵ ẙ Ỷ ỷ Ȳ ȳ Ɏ ɏ Ƴ ƴ 2. ʎ and ʏ are used in the International Phonetic Alphabet(IPA) 3. IPA superscript letters: 𐞠 𐞲𐞡 4. 𝼆 : Small letter turned y with belt is an extension to IPAfor disordered speech (extIPA) 5. U+AB5A ꭚ LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH SHORT RIGHT LEG is used in the Teuthonistaphonetic transcription system 6. ʸis used for phonetic transcription 7. Ỿ ỿ : Y with loop is used by some Welsh medievalists to indicate the schwa sound of ⟨y⟩
Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
1. 𐤅: Semitic letter Waw, from which the following symbols originally derive 1.1. Υ υ : Greek letter Upsilon, from which Y derives 1.1.1. Ⲩ ⲩ : Coptic letter epsilon/he (not to be confused with the unrelated Greek letter Ε ε called epsilon) 1.1.2. 𐌖 : Old ItalicU/V, which is the ancestor of modern Latin V and U 1.1.3. 𐍅 : Gothic letter uuinne/vinja, which is transliterated as w 1.1.4. У у : Cyrillic letter U, which derives from Greek upsilon via the digraph omicron-upsilon used to represen...
Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations
1. ¥ : Yen sign 2. ⓨ : In Japan, ⓨ is a symbol used for resale price maintenance.
On the standard US/UK keyboard Y is the sixth letter of the top row; On the QWERTZkeyboard used in Central Europe it is replaced there by Z, and is itself positioned at the bottom left.
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This is a list of ISO 639-3 language codes starting with Y . Index | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z. Abbreviations are used in the table as follows: Scope: I = individual language, M = macrolanguage, S = special code.
Although English is not de jure an official language at the national level in the United States, most states and territories within the United States have English as an official language, and only Puerto Rico uses a language other than English as a primary working language. The United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand ...
