is there any language in the world wich use this character: ÿ?

Question

i have seen this asked long ago in a computer magazine, and it was not resolved. note that it is not dutch, where there exist an i-j ligature: ij, but this is rounded.

Answer 1

Wikipedia knows (again):



Ÿ is sometimes used in transcribed Greek, where it represents the non-diphthong αυ (alpha upsilon), e.g. in the Persian name Artaÿctes at the very end of Herodotus. It occurs also in French as a variant of ï, in rare proper nouns (for instance, the name of the Parisian suburb of L'Haÿ-les-Roses).

Answer 2

It is not modern German but I have seen it used in at least two cases historically of German who immigrated to English language areas. Specifically some of the church records of St. Mary's, London in 1717 show the use of the ÿ. Also the immigration and naturalization papers of Henrÿ John Sutter in Washington Territory in 1890. Henrÿ was born near Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1855. His name was probably Heinrich in Germay but switched to Henrÿ in the United States so that the spelling could be closer to the English "Henry" while being phonetically closer to the German Heinrich. It is similar to the Dutch "ÿ" which is pronounced as "ij".

Answer 3

The Celtic, Norse and Germanic languages use that symbol to indicate how the word is to be pronounced.either as an emphasis on that letter or to make it a different sounding letter.

Answer 4

I believe German...may.

Answer 5

My guess was Turkish, because they have several letters with umlaut, but when I looked it up, the Y does not have it.

Sorry!

Maybe you should continue searching in that corner, the languages related to Turkish.

Answer 6

Icelandic?

Answer 7

In mathematics it is the second derivative with respect to time.

Answer 8

My guess would be German.

Answer 9

Might be a math symbol...

Answer 10

northwestern european! idk which country (ukraine?) but i saw it a week ago! i couldve sworn it was somethin like that