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Penultimate letter of the Latin alphabet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the letter of the Latin alphabet. For other uses, see Y (disambiguation).
Y, or y, is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. According to some authorities, it is the sixth (or seventh if including W) vowel letter of the English alphabet.[1] Its name in English is wye[2] (pronounced /ˈwaɪ/), plural wyes.[3]
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Writing system | Latin script | ||
Type | Alphabetic and logographic | ||
Language of origin | Latin language | ||
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In Unicode | U+0059, U+0079 | ||
Alphabetical position | 25 | ||
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Time period | 54 to present | ||
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Associated graphs | y(x), ly, ny | ||
Writing direction | Left-to-right | ||
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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In the English writing system, it mostly represents a vowel and seldom a consonant, and in other orthographies it may represent a vowel or a consonant.