Í, í (i-acute) is a letter in the Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak, Dobrujan Tatar, Czech, and Slovak languages, where it often indicates a long /i/ vowel (ee in English word feel). This form also appears in Catalan, Irish, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Aragonese, Galician, Leonese, Navajo, and Vietnamese language as a variant of the letter "i". In Latin, the long i Template:Angle bracket is used instead of Template:Angle bracket for a long i-vowel.<ref name="compart">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Usage in various languagesEdit
ChineseEdit
In Chinese pinyin í is the yángpíng tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of “i”.
Dobrujan TatarEdit
Í is the 12th letter of the Dobrujan Tatar alphabet, represents the hight unrounded half-advanced ATR or soft vowel /ɨ/ as in "bír" [b̶ɨr̶] 'one'. At the end of the word it is pronounced with half open mouth undergoing dilatation "Keñiytúw" and becoming mid unrounded half-advanced ATR or soft /ə/, also known as schwa, as in "tílí" [t̶ɨl̶ə] 'his tongue'.
FaroeseEdit
Í is the 11th letter of the Faroese alphabet and represents {{#invoke:IPA|main}}.
Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Czech and SlovakEdit
Í is the 16th letter of the Hungarian alphabet, the 12th letter of the Icelandic alphabet, the 16th letter of the Czech alphabet and the 18th letter of the Slovak alphabet. It represents {{#invoke:IPA|main}}.
Ibero-Romance & ItalianEdit
In Ibero-Romance languages, the "í" is not considered a letter, but the letter "i" with an accent. It is used to denote an "i" syllable with abnormal stress. In Italian, Í/í is a variant of I carrying an acute accent; it represents an /i/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it is the last letter of the word except in dictionaries or when a different pronunciation may affect the meaning of a word: víola ("violates", {{#invoke:IPA|main}}) and viòla ("violet", {{#invoke:IPA|main}}).
KarakalpakEdit
Í is the 13th letter of the Karakalpak alphabet. It represents {{#invoke:IPA|main}}. Its preferred lowercase form is Template:Angbr.
VietnameseEdit
In Vietnamese alphabet í is the {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} tone (high-rising tone) of “i”.