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May 30

Dotted and dotless I

All Turkic languages using Latin alphabet except Turkmen differentiate dotted and dotless I. But is there any non-Turkic language which differentiates them? I don't know any such non-Turkic language. --40bus (talk) 20:18, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It was introduced in Ataturk's 1928 Latin-alphabet orthography for Turkish, so it's unlikely to show up in anything that wasn't influenced by Ataturk's 1928 Latin-alphabet orthography for Turkish... AnonMoos (talk) 21:57, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The orthography of Turkmen makes a distinction between the phonemes /i/ and /ɯ/, but uses a different pair of upper-case + lower-case graphemes to express it. Some other Turkic languages than Turkmen also use or have used a different grapheme pair. There is an overview table in the article Common Turkic Alphabet. The status of the use of a Latin script varies by language (commonly used / only historic / unofficial but used in practice / official but otherwise hardly used / ...). --Lambiam 06:46, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is the Zazaki language. Some Zazaki writers use Ii and Îî as in Bedirxan's Kurmanji alphabet, but others use C. M. Jacobson's alphabet with dotted and dotless I. Burzuchius (talk) 13:59, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Turkmen is not the only Turkic language that doesn't use the letters this way. Uzbek, for one, has never done so either. See the large comparative table at Common Turkic Alphabet for more. --Theurgist (talk) 16:44, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]