I with macron (Cyrillic) explained

I with macron (Ӣ ӣ; italics:

Ӣ ӣ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Tajik, it represents a stressed close front unrounded vowel pronounced as //i// at the end of a word. In Kildin Sami on the Kola Peninsula and Mansi in western Siberia, it represents long pronounced as //iː//. Both these sounds are pronounced like the ee in “feet”. In those languages, vowel length is distinctive, and the macron marks the long version of vowels.

I with macron is also used in Aleut (Bering dialect).[1] It is the sixteenth letter of the modern Aleut alphabet. It looks similar to the Short I (Й й

Й й) and often written identically in some cursive scripts.

I with macron also appears in the Bulgarian and Serbian languages.

Usage

South Slavic languages

I with macron is used in some of the South Slavic languages, mainly Bulgarian and Serbian for two-syllable offset based on the old Slavic accent law, to become easy for the accent analogy to pass in separate words, to become lexical. as the analogy passed through three-syllable oxytones with a tonal pattern: тетӣвà.[2] [3] I with macron is also sometimes used as a form of Short I.

See also

References

  1. Book: Головко, Е. В. . 1994 . Словарь алеутско-русский и русско-алеутский (беринговский диалект) . Aleut-Russian and Russian-Aleut Dictionary (Bering dialect) . 14 . Отд-ние изд-ва "Просвещение" . 5-09-002312-3.
  2. Web site: Accent in Bulgarian dialects . October 25, 2012.
  3. Web site: Bulgarian dialects . May 9, 2013 .