2090: Turkish Special Letters: İ and ı Sep 4, 2020

Most people, regardless of language would associate the i (with a tittle) with being lower case, but this would not be true for the Turks. The Turkish writing system is modified from the Latin alphabet including <ğ> <ç> and <ş>. Along with those İ/i and I/ı represent different phonemes, and so have separate lower- and uppercase forms. Azerbaijani, a Turkic language, also has a special letter ə, capitalized as Ә.

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