(Dënësųłınë́) sign at
La Loche Airport in Saskatchewan, Canada, with dotless
i. The dotless
ı may also be used as a stylistic variant of the dotted
i, without there being any meaningful difference between them. This is common in older
Irish orthography, for example, but is simply the omission of the
tittle rather than a separate letter. The í is a separate letter as is ì in Scottish Gaelic. Though historically Irish only used an "i" without a dot, so as to not confuse with "í", this dotless "ı" should not be used for Irish. Instead a font with "i" in the normal location should be used that has no dot. See other old-style Irish letters and the symbol for & still used in modern Irish text and
Irish orthography. In some of the
Athabaskan languages of the
Northwest Territories in Canada, specifically
Slavey,
Dogrib and
Chipewyan, all instances of
i are undotted to avoid confusion with tone-marked vowels
í or
ì. Lowercase dotless
ı is used as the lowercase form of
the letter Í in the official
Karakalpak alphabet approved in 2016. Both the dotted and dotless I can be used in transcriptions of
Rusyn to allow distinguishing between the letters
Ы and
И, which would otherwise be both transcribed as "y", despite representing different phonemes. Under such transcription the dotted İ would represent the Cyrillic
І, and the dotless I would represent either Ы or И, with the other being represented by "Y". ==See also==