ى

Alternative forms

 * Also the final or isolated form of ي in the Nile Valley, when typed on electronic devices, which looks similar in shape to the Persian ی in its final or isolated form.

Letter

 * 1) Only written in the final position, transliterated ā. Also called . In the rare case of a rasm version of Quran, it is the ي|yāʾ version.

Etymology 2
From.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-eighth letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Ы or І.

Usage notes

 * Represents the back vowel phoneme /ə/, unless a small ٴ|ء (hamza) was placed in the beginning of the word. In Kazakh the Hamza marks that all vowels in the following word are fronted. If ى is the initial letter of a word and is representing a front vowel, it is combined with the hamza and the variant ٸ is used.

Letter

 * 1) The thirtieth letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

Usage notes

 * UYY - ULY: Ii
 * USY: Ии