Ÿ
Swedish letter was in, French, Swedish, And English
ÿ is a Latin script character composed of the letter ⟨y⟩ and the diaeresis diacritical mark. (An uppercase form, Ÿ, has a codepoint in some coding schemes (including Unicode) but is not known to be used in any orthography.)
Usage
It occurs in French as a variant of ⟨ï⟩ in a few proper nouns, as in the name of the Parisian suburb of L'Haÿ-les-Roses (French pronunciation: [laj le ʁoz] ) and in the surname of the house of Croÿ [kʁu.i]. As with other French vowels with a diaresis, the ⟨ÿ⟩ indicates the second of two vowels in hiatus.
It occurs in a few Hungarian proper nouns as well, such as Lajos Méhelÿ and Margit Danÿ. It also functions as a diaresis, but shows that the ⟨ÿ⟩ is pronounced as separate ⟨i⟩ instead of being the second letter in the Hungarian digraphs ⟨gy⟩, ⟨ly⟩, ⟨ny⟩ and ⟨ty⟩.
In Tlingit, ⟨ÿ⟩ represented the sound [ɰ], but is not used today as the sound has merged with [j] and [w].
In Paunaka, this letter represents the vowel [ɨ].
The Cocama language also uses this letter.
The International Phonetic Alphabet uses ⟨ÿ⟩ to transcribe the close central compressed vowel, a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
The character has also found use as a gratuitous metal umlaut, notably for the metal band Queensrÿche.
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