I with bowl
, is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet. It was introduced in 1928 into the reformed Yañalif, and later into other alphabets for Soviet minority languages. The letter was designed specifically to represent the non-front close vowel sounds and. Thus, this letter corresponds to the letter in modern Turkic alphabets.Using
The letter was originally included in the Yañalif, and later also included in the alphabets of the Kurdish, Abazin, Sami, Komi, Tsakhur, Azerbaijani and Bashkir languages, as well as in the draft reform of the Udmurt alphabet. During the project of the Latinization of the Russian language, this letter corresponded to the Cyrillic letter.
In alphabets that used this letter, lowercase B was replaced by a small capital so that there would be no confusion between and.Encoding
The letter I with bowl has not been adopted into Unicode, despite repeated applications. Instead, computer users can substitute similar letters, either Ь ь or Ƅ ƅ.
