Y

Y
ISO basic Laitin alphabet

Cursive script 'y' and capital 'Y' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

Y (named wye^[1] /ˈwaɪ/, plural wyes)^[2] 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.

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 ᚣ). 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	–·––

		[[File:Sign language {{{fingerspelling}}}.svg\|90px]]
Seegnal banner	Banner semaphore	American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin)	Braille dots-13456

References

↑ Also spelled wy.
↑ "Y", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "wy", op. cit.

Freemit airtins

Media relatit tae Y at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionar defineetion o Y at Wiktionary
The dictionar defineetion o y at Wiktionary

The ISO basic Laitin alphabet v t e
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

[1] Also spelled wy.

[2] "Y", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "wy", op. cit.

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