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Y (Letter)

Y
Latin Y.svg
Spellings
Capital Y
Bas-de-casse y
Use
Alphabets Latin
Order 25 th
Phonemes main / I / , / y / , / d / ...

Y (pronounced "Greek i") is the 25thletter of the alphabet today.

The grapheme letter is the same as that of the upsilon ( in uppercase , lowercase ) of the Greek alphabet.

Summary

Linguistics

Language French

Phonetics and phonology

It is both a vowel ( / i / , as in cycle) and a semi-vowel ( / d / , as in "eyes"). The is the only vowel in the alphabet in French do not support one of the three accents (acute, grave, circumflex), but it is not free from combining as it can be topped with a dieresis. It may have some words in the equivalent of two i, as in Savoy (Savoie-iard).

Adverb and pronoun

  • In this place, "I am, I stay" or "Go".
  • Being at home, or be available: "I'm there for anybody. "
  • Or should not have some responsibility: "I'm not here for nothing. "
  • Do not count on it: "Forget it. "
  • It works like this: "We're working on now. "
  • Act with skill, "Well do it. "

In some regional languages such as Lyons or the Savoy, "y" is used instead of the pronoun "it":

  • "Be careful not to lose" instead of "Please do not lose."
  • "Do it! "Instead of" Do it! .

Coding

Computer

Radio

Audio file
Y Morse

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Other

Signaling Sign language Writing
Braille
Flag Semaphore French Quebec
ICS Yankee.svg Semaphore Yankee.svg RSA LettreY.jpg LSQ y.jpg Braille Y.svg

See also

Latin alphabet
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
Additional letters d ( ) /
With diacritical superscript: N

hook or crook: ( ) H ( )

registered: DJ ( ) pm T Z
Digraphs C. Dx Gb Kp LI Mb Mp Nd Ng Nh Nk Ns Nt Ny Nz Or Sh Th
Trigrams C'h Ngb NKP Sch Tsh
Obsolete letters s
Variants of the letter Y
Superscript diacritic (acute accent) (caret) there (grave accent) y (hook Chief) (hook) (macron) y (point suscrit) y (round head) y ( tilde) (umlaut)
Diacritical registered (bar included)
Diacritical subscribed Y (DOT)

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