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Y (named wye /ˈwaɪ/, plural wyes) is the twinty-fift letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet (next tae last letter) an represents aither a vowel or a consonant in Inglis.

Y
Y
ISO basic Laitin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg
Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn
Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu
Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Y
Y
Y
Cursive script 'y' and capital 'Y' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

Name

In Latin, Y wis named Y Graeca "Greek Y". This wis pronoonced as I Graeca "Greek I", syne the classical Greek soond /y/, seemilar tae modren German ü or French u, wis nae a native soond for Latin speakers, an the letter wis ineetially anly uised tae spell foreign wirds. In Romance leids, this history haes led tae the staundart modren name o the letter: Spainyie i griega, French i grec, etc. Alternatively, the oreeginal Greek name upsilon haes an aa been adaptit intae several modren leids sic as German.

Auld Inglis borraeed Latin Y tae write the native Auld Inglis soond /y/ (previously written wi the rune yr ). The name o the letter mey be relatit tae 'ui' (or 'vi') in various medieval leids; in Middlin Inglis it wis 'wi' /wiː/, which throu the Great Vowel Shift acame the Modren Inglis 'wy' /waɪ/.

Relatit letters an ither similar characters

  • Υ υ : Greek letter Upsilon
  • У у : Cyrillic letter U
  • Ү ү : Cyrillic letter Ue (Straicht U)
  • Ы ы : Cyrillic letter Yery, commonly romanized as ⟨y⟩
  • י : Hebrew letter yodh
  • ¥ : a siller seembol

Computin codes

Character Y y
Unicode name LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER Y     LATIN SMAA LETTER Y
Encodins decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 89 U+0059 121 U+0079
UTF-8 89 59 121 79
Numeric chairacter reference Y Y y y
EBCDIC faimily 232 E8 168 A8
ASCII 1 89 59 121 79
    1 An aa for encodings based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.

Ither representations

NATO phonetic Morse code
Yankee –·––
Y  Y  [[File:Sign language {{{fingerspelling}}}.svg|90px]] Y 
Seegnal banner Banner semaphore American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin) Braille
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References

Freemit airtins

  • Y  Media relatit tae Y at Wiki Commons
  • Y  The dictionar defineetion o Y at Wiktionary
  • Y  The dictionar defineetion o y at Wiktionary
The ISO basic Laitin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Letter Y with diacritics
Ýý Ỳỳ Ŷŷ Y̊ẙ Ÿÿ Ỹỹ Ẏẏ Ȳȳ Ỷỷ Ỵỵ Ɏɏ Ƴƴ ʏ
Related
  • Derivations
  • Diacritics
  • History
  • ISO/IEC 646
  • Leet o letters
  • Numerals
  • Palaeography
  • Punctuation
  • Unicode

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