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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.
Only written in the final position, transliterated ā. Called أَلِف مَقْصُورَة(ʔalif maqṣūra, “limited, restricted alif”) or أَلِف لَيِّنَة(ʔalif layyina, “flexible alif”). In the rare case of a rasm version of Quran, it is the yāʾ version.
The twenty-eighth letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Ы or І.
Forms
Isolated form
Final form
Medial form
Initial form
ى
ـى
ـىـ
ىـ
Usage notes
Represents the back vowel phoneme /ə/, unless a small 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.