Ukrainian I
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Cyrillic letter Ukrainian I | ||||||
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Cyrillic alphabet | ||||||
А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Ѓ | Д |
Ђ | Е | Ё | Є | Ж | З | Ѕ |
И | І | Ї | Й | Ј | К | Ќ |
Л | Љ | М | Н | Њ | О | П |
Р | С | Т | Ћ | У | Ў | Ф |
Х | Ц | Ч | Џ | Ш | Щ | Ъ |
Ы | Ь | Э | Ю | Я | ||
Non-Slavic Letters | ||||||
Ӑ | Ә | Ӕ | Ҕ | Ӗ | Ғ | Ӏ |
Ӂ | Җ | Ӝ | Ҙ | Ӟ | Ӡ | Ӣ |
Ӥ | Ҡ | Қ | Ҟ | Ҝ | Ң | Ҥ |
Ө | Ӧ | Ҧ | Ҫ | Ҷ | Ҹ | Ӵ |
Ҽ | Ҿ | Ҩ | Ҳ | Һ | Ҭ | Ҵ |
Ӳ | Ӯ | Ү | Ұ | Ӱ | ||
Archaic letters | ||||||
Ҁ | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѻ | Ѣ | ІА |
Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ |
Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ |
I (І, і) (also called decimal I, or dotted I) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the orthographies of the Belarusian, Kazakh and Ukrainian languages. It represents the vowel sound /i/, and is the equivalent of the Russian и. It is derived from the Greek letter iota (Ι, ι, representing [i]).
In the early Cyrillic alphabet there was little or no distinction between the letters и (izhe) and і (i), descended from the Greek letters η (eta) and ι (iota). They both remained in the alphabetical repertoire because they represented different numbers in the Cyrillic numeral system, eight and ten, and are therefore sometimes referred to as octal I and decimal I.
I (decimal I, dotted I) also used to be in the Russian alphabet before 1918, when a significant reform of the Russian orthography came into effect. For the rules governing the usage of it in the "old" Russian orthography, see Russian alphabet#Letters eliminated in 1918.