I with grave (Cyrillic)


I with grave is a character representing a stressed variant of the regular letter in some Cyrillic alphabets, but none includes it as a separate letter.

South Slavic languages

Bulgarian and Macedonian

Most regularly is used in Bulgarian and Macedonian languages to distinguish the short form of the indirect object from the conjunction , or less frequently, to prevent ambiguity in other similar cases. When not available, the character is often replaced by an ordinary or in Bulgarian by the letter .

Church Slavonic

In modern Russian recension of Church Slavonic, is just an orthographic variant of the same letter with an acute accent when used as the last letter of the word.

Serbian

can be optionally used in Serbian texts to show one of four possible tones of the stressed syllable. In cases like прѝкупити vs. прику́пити, or ѝскуп vs. и̏скуп ; the usage of diacritics can also prevent ambiguity. In the Latin variant of the Serbo-Croatian writing system, all stress/tone marks are the same, i.e. Cyrillic corresponds to Latin etc.

East Slavic languages

can be found in older Russian and Ukrainian books as stressed variants of regular vowels, like Russian вѝна vs. вина̀. Recently, East Slavonic typographies have begun using the acute accent instead of the grave accent to denote the stress: ви́на, вина́.
Stress marks are optional in East Slavic languages. They are regularly used only in special books like dictionaries, primers, or textbooks for foreigners as the stress is very unpredictable in all three languages, whereas in general texts, they are extremely rare and used mainly to help prevent ambiguity in certain cases or to show pronunciation of exotic words.
Some modern Russian dictionaries use a grave accent to denote the secondary stress in compound words, like жѝзнеспосо́бный .

"Decimal" I with grave

Cyrillic orthographies that have can use or as its stressed variant. The difference between and is the same as one between and.

Related letters and other similar characters