Ï

Ï

Ï is a symbol used in various languages written with the Latin alphabet.

In Afrikaans, Dutch and French, <ï> is used where two vowels are next to one another and indicates the correct emphasis and pronunciation of such a word. For example in words like Maïs (Dutch/French), Oekraïne (Dutch/Afrikaans) or in the word naïve.

In the transcription of the languages of the Amazon, <ï> is used to represent the high central vowel IPA| [ɨ] .

ee also

*Umlaut (diacritic)
*Yi (Cyrillic)


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