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Also known as izhei, Belarusian i, Kazakh i, Rusyn i
Cyrillic letter “Ukrainian-Belarusian i” or “izhei”, also formerly used in Russian before 1918
"І/і" is a letter from the Cyrillic alphabet that looks like a straight vertical line with a dot above it, used in Ukrainian and Belarusian writing and historically in Russian before spelling reforms in 1918. It matters because it's a fundamental part of modern Ukrainian and Belarusian orthography, helping to distinguish these languages' written forms from Russian and from each other.
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І, і, também chamada de I ucraniana, I decimal ou I com ponto, é uma letra do alfabeto cirílico presente apenas nos alfabetos ucraniana, bielorrusso, komi e cazaque. Sua pronúncia é [i] e equivale, no alfabeto russo, à letra и. Se origina da letra grega iota (Ι, ι). І foi usada no alfabeto russo até 1918, quando uma profunda reforma aboliu a letra definitivamente.
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