For Latins Latin disambiguation pp move indef Infobox language name Latin nativename lingua latina pronunciation ... languages Latino Faliscan imagecaption Latin inscription in the Colosseum image Rome Colosseum .... Latin was by no means confined to these regions, and Koine Greek , Coptic Language Coptic , Syriac ... of the Roman Catholic Church , and regulates Latin with respect to its status as official language of the Holy See and for use by Catholic clergy. ref script Latin alphabet     needed to prevent default link to Latin script iso1 la iso2 lat iso3 lat lingua 51 AAB a notice IPA Latin IPAc en icon l t n Latin lang la lingua lat na , IPA la la ti na IPA is an Italic language ref cite book title A companion to Latin studies first John Edwin last Sandys location Chicago publisher University ... Nytimes.com date October 6, 2008 ref harv ref Latin is still used in Neologism the creation of new words in modern languages of many different families, including English. Latin and its daughter Romance ... to Vulgar Latin . By the late Roman Republic, a standard, literate form had arisen from the speech of the educated, now referred to as Classical Latin . Vulgar Latin, by contrast, is the name given ... 1900 pp 1 3 ref With the Military history of the Roman Empire Roman conquest , Latin spread to many ... 014014305X ref Classical Latin slowly changed with the Decline of the Roman Empire , as education and wealth became ever scarcer. The consequent Medieval Latin , influenced by various Germanic and proto ... by vernacular languages . Latin is a highly fusional language inflected language , with three ... number numbers . A Dual grammatical number dual number is present in Archaic Latin . One of the rarer ... to case, gender, and number. Although Classical Latin has Demonstrative demonstrative pronouns ... of vocabulary, however, Latin tends to preserve the original forms of many Indo European roots ... needed date August 2011 Legacy Latin s culture has been passed down through these broad genres ... more details
Latin kings or Latin Kings may refer to Latin Kings gang , a street gang Latin kings of Alba Longa , series of legendary kings of Alba Longa, in Latium The Latin Kings , a Swedish hip hop group The Original Latin Kings of Comedy disambig ... more details
Latin School may refer to Latin school Latin schools of Medieval Europe These schools in the United States Boston Latin School , Boston, MA Brooklyn Latin School , New York, NY Kellenberg Memorial High School Latin School Brother Joseph C. Fox Latin School , Long Island, NY Latin School of Chicago , Chicago, IL disambig Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages ... more details
AP Latin can refer to either of the following Advanced Placement Program Advanced Placement exams AP Latin Literature AP Latin Vergil disambig ... more details
Latin culture may refer to Latin Ancient Rome Latin literature Classics Latin Europe Spanish culture Portuguese culture French culture Italian culture Romanian culture Culture of Moldova Moldovan culture Latin America Latin American culture Culture of Quebec Romance speaking African countries African French Francophone Africa Lusophone Africa Latin Asia Spanish influence on Filipino culture See also Romance languages disambig ... more details
notability date September 2011 one source date September 2011 The Latin Library is a website that collects public domain Latin texts. The texts have been drawn from different sources. Many were originally scanned and formatted from texts in the Public Domain. Others have been downloaded from various sites on the Internet many of which have long since disappeared . Most of the recent texts have been submitted by contributors around the world. The texts are not intended for research purposes nor as substitutes for critical editions. There are no translations at the site. See also Latin literature External links http www.thelatinlibrary.com index.html The Latin Library homepage. Category Latin literature Latin Library Category Language oriented digital libraries Category Computing in classical studies Latin Library de The Latin Library is The Latin Library it The Latin Library la The Latin Library mk The Latin Library ja pl The Latin Library ro Biblioteca latin ... more details
Wiktionary LatinlatinLatin is an Italic language, originally spoken in ancient Rome and its empire. Latin can also refer to TOC right Language and languages The Roman or Latin alphabet , which became the basic script used by most European languages Wheelock s Latin , a textbook for teaching the Latin language Dog Latin , a whimsical pseudo language utilizing Latin elements Macaronic Latin, the basis for defining Macaronic language , a mixed language Pig Latin , a whimsical pseudo language based on sound alternations in English Latino sine Flexione , an artificial language based on Latin but without inflections Latinism , the use of words from or like Latin Latinization literature , the alteration of foreign words into Latin like ones Ethnic groups Latins Italic tribe , a people inhabiting ancient Italy Various people throughout history who have been called Latins People with the surname Latin Denis Latin b. 1966 , Croatian television host Ivo Latin 1929 2002 , former speaker of the Parliament of Croatia and Mayor of Zagreb Music Latin American music , musical styles and genres found within Central and South America. Latin dance , a division of ballroom dancing Latin jazz , jazz based on the rhythms of and similar to those of Latin dance Latin , the fourth movement of Mike Oldfield s Tubular Bells 2003 album Latin album Latin album , an album by the band Holy Fuck Other Latin honors , expressions in Latin of academic distinction placed on a new degree Latin square , a square array in which each symbol appears exactly once in each row and each column Latin Rite , the principal ... also lookfrom Latin Ladin Lateen Latino disambiguation Latina disambiguation Latin Quarter disambiguation Lattin disambiguation Latinus disambiguation cs Latina rozcestn k cy Latin de Latinus es Latino eo Latina fa fr Latinus ko id Latin jv Latin hu Latin egy rtelm s t lap nl Latin ja pt Latino sv Latin olika betydelser tg tr Latin vi Latinh nh h ng ... more details
Basic Latin may refer to C0 controls and basic Latin , a Unicode block It may also refer to ASCII , the US variant of 7 bit encoding system ISO basic Latin alphabet ISO IEC 646 , an early 7 bit encoding system See also Latin characters in Unicode disambig ... more details
Latin Extended A is a block of the Unicode standard. It encodes Latin letters from the Latin ISO character sets other than Latin 1 which is already encoded in the Latin 1 Supplement block and also legacy ... wikitable sortable Code hex Glyph Description U 0100 Latin Capital Letter A with macron U 0101 Latin Small Letter A with macron U 0102 Latin Capital Letter A with breve U 0103 Latin Small Letter A with breve U 0104 Latin Capital Letter A with ogonek U 0105 Latin Small Letter A with ogonek U 0106 Latin Capital Letter C with acute U 0107 Latin Small Letter C with acute U 0108 Latin Capital Letter C with circumflex U 0109 Latin Small Letter C with circumflex U 010A Latin Capital Letter C with dot above U 010B Latin Small Letter C with dot above U 010C Latin Capital Letter C with caron U 010D Latin Small Letter C with caron U 010E Latin Capital Letter D with caron U 010F Latin Small Letter D with caron U 0110 Latin Capital Letter D with stroke U 0111 Latin Small Letter D with stroke U 0112 Latin Capital Letter E with macron U 0113 Latin Small Letter E with macron U 0114 Latin Capital Letter E with breve U 0115 Latin Small Letter E with breve U 0116 Latin Capital Letter E with dot above U 0117 Latin Small Letter E with dot above U 0118 Latin Capital Letter E with ogonek U 0119 Latin Small Letter E with ogonek U 011A Latin Capital Letter E with caron U 011B Latin Small Letter E with caron U 011C Latin Capital Letter G with circumflex U 011D Latin Small Letter G with circumflex U 011E Latin Capital Letter G with breve U 011F Latin Small Letter G with breve U 0120 Latin Capital Letter G with dot above U 0121 Latin Small Letter G with dot above U 0122 Latin Capital Letter G with cedilla U 0123 Latin Small Letter G with cedilla U 0124 Latin Capital Letter H with circumflex U 0125 Latin Small Letter H with circumflex U 0126 Latin Capital Letter H with stroke U 0127 Latin Small Letter H with stroke U 0128 ... more details
Latin nationalism may relate to Pan nationalism Pan americanism Ethnic nationalism Category Ethnicity Category Latin American culture Category Nationalism ... more details
PIG latin may refer to Pig Latin a language game of alterations played in English Pig programming language a MapReduce programming language used with Hadoop Disambig ... more details
Latin Patriarch can refer to these Catholic counter claimants to the titles of the Pentarchy Latin Patriarch of Constantinople extinct Latin Patriarch of Antioch extinct Latin Patriarch of Alexandria extinct Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem It could also theoretically refer to one of the few other patriarch s of the Latin Rite Patriarch of Venice Patriarch of Lisbon Patriarch of the East Indies Patriarch of Aquileia extinct Patriarch of Grado merged with the office of the Bishop of Castello to become the Patriarch of Venice Patriarchate of Carthage Patriarch of Carthage extinct Patriarchate of the West Indies Patriarch of the West Indies extinct It should also be noted that Patriarch of Rome and all the West and Patriarch of the West are two rarely mentioned titles of the Pope . Catholic Church Catholicism also recognizes the patriarchs of the east patriarchs of the East , but they would never be called Latin. disambig ... more details
Latin Lover may refer to Latin Lover wrestler Victor Ruiz born 1967 , a wrestler Latin Lover TV series , a TV series Antonio Moreno 1887&ndash 1967 , Spanish actor, later naturalized U.S. citizen, of the silent film era Rudolph Valentino 1895&ndash 1926 , Italian actor Ram n Novarro 1899&ndash 1968 , Mexican actor Reginald Foster Latinist , Latin expert and Roman Catholic priest with a show on Vatican Radio called the Latin Lover disambiguation de Latin Lover it Latin Lover ... more details
Refimprove date May 2007 Infobox language name Renaissance Latin region Europe states The administrations and universities of numerous countries nation Most Roman Catholic countries script Latin alphabet     needed to prevent default link to Latin script extinct developed into New Latin by 16th ... Faliscan fam4 Latin imagecaption Mural of Dante in the Uffizi Gallery , by Andrea del Castagno , c ... iso3 Renaissance Latin is a name given to the distinctive form of Latin style developed during ... humanism movement. Ad fontes Ad fontes was the general cry of the humanists, and as such their Latin style sought to purge Latin of the medieval Latin vocabulary and stylistic accretions that it had acquired in the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire. They looked to golden age Latin literature, and especially to Cicero in prose and Virgil in poetry , as the arbiters of Latin style. They abandoned ... , and sought instead to revive the Greek formats that were used in Latin poetry during the Roman period. The humanists condemned the large body of medieval Latin literature as High Medieval gothic &mdash for them, a term of abuse &mdash and believed instead that only ancient Latin from the Roman period was real Latin . The humanists also sought to purge written Latin of medieval developments in its ... Latin medieval scribes often wrote e instead of ae . They were much more zealous than medieval Latin writers that t and c be distinguished because the effects of palatalization made them homophone ... handwriting Humanists usually wrote Latin in a humanist minuscule script derived from Carolingian minuscule ... scripts used in the Middle Ages. Erasmus even proposed that the Latin regional pronunciation then traditional pronunciations of Latin be abolished in favour of his Latin spelling and pronunciation reconstructed version of classical Latin pronunciation. The humanist plan to remake Latin was largely ... of the texts selected by the humanists, to the large exclusion of later Latin literature. On the other ... more details
File Palm sunday latin mass.jpg 333px right thumb Tridentine Mass celebrated in Latin in a chapel of Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston Cathedral of the Holy Cross , Boston, Massachusetts Boston The term Latin Mass refers to the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic Mass liturgy Mass celebrated in Latin . The term is frequently used to denote the Tridentine Mass that is, the Roman Rite ... Missal published between 1570 and 1962. In most countries, this form of Mass was celebrated only in Latin ... speaking, Latin Mass could be applied also to the various forms of Pre Tridentine Mass from ... Britannica Online , the Church in Rome changed from Greek language Greek to Latin. ref Neither the Second Vatican Council nor the subsequent Mass of Paul VI revision of the Roman Missal abolished Latin ... into vernacular languages are to be based, continues to be in Latin, and Latin can still be used ... permitted to celebrate Mass in Latin http www.vatican.va roman curia congregations ccdds documents ... The term Latin Mass is sometimes applied to such celebrations, which in some places are part of the normal Sunday schedule. The Roman Rite is not the only form of liturgy celebrated in Latin. Other Latin liturgical rites used the language, and in some cases continue to do so. These include the Ambrosian ... them in Latin. Where these other Latin liturgical rites are in use, their celebration in the Latin language is sometimes referred to as Latin Mass . ref For instance, the website of the http ... la santa Messa in latino secondo il rito Ambrosiano Antico Latin Mass Holy Mass in Latin in accordance ... is entitled Latin Mass Magazine The Latin Mass , the Journal of Catholic Culture & Tradition . Various editions of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer have been translated into Latin for example, for use ... Church , in Latin. Notes references Category Mass liturgy Category Catholic traditionalism id Misa Latin gd Aifreann Laidinneach es Misa latina ... more details
SpecialChars Latin delta unicode is a latin alphabet Latin letter similar in appearance to the Greek alphabet Greek lowercase letter delta letter delta , but derived from the handwritten Latin lowercase d . It is also known as script d or insular d and is used in medieval Welsh transcriptions for the IPAblink sound English th in this represented by dd digraph dd in Modern Welsh . A proposal to include several medieval characters in the Universal Character Set ref http std.dkuug.dk jtc1 sc2 wg2 docs n3027.pdf Proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS ref included this character with the name LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT D. This was renamed to LATIN SMALL LETTER DELTA ref http www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk irg irg irg26 WG2N3104.pdf Resolutions of WG 2 meeting 48 ref and added to Unicode as U 1E9F ref http www.unicode.org charts PDF U1E00.pdf ref when Unicode 5.1 was released on 4 April 2008. References references DEFAULTSORT Delta, Latin Category Uncommon Latin letters Category Article Feedback 5 typography stub de ko ... more details
Unreferenced date October 2010 The Latin New Car Assessment Programme Latin NCAP is an automobile safety assessment programme founded in 2010 by the F d ration Internationale de l Automobile Region IV, FIA Foundation, International Consumer Research & Testing and the Gonzalo Rodr guez Foundation. The initiative has support from the Inter American Development Bank IADB , following the Euro NCAP and other schemes around the world. Its aim it to test the active and passive safety of new cars sold in Latin America and the Caribbean . See also Euro NCAP JNCAP External links Commons category LatinNCAP http www.latinncap.com Latin NCAP official website DEFAULTSORT Latin Ncap Category Car safety Category Latin America pt LatinNCAP ... more details
Notability date January 2008 Unreferenced date January 2008 The ALEN Almighty Latin Eagles Nation originated ... Members of the Latin Eagles Nation identify themselves with the colours grey and black. They also use ... with the Folk Nation . History The Latin Eagles originated in the Wrigleyville community in the vicinity ... between two neighborhood clubs, the Topcats and the Emerald Knights. After the merger, the Latin Eagles organization emerged. Initially, the Latin Eagles operations were that of Latino political group .... However, by the mid to late 1970s, the Latin Eagles transformed into a street gang. The Latin Eagles initially engaged in small petty crimes such as graffiti and theft. In the mid 1970s, the Latin ... of the Latin Disciples, Spanish Cobras, Imperial Gangsters, and Latin Eagles street gang. These four ... and early 1980s, the Latin Eagles solidified their presence in the Wrigleyville community as well ... in the Uptown neighborhoods, the Latin Eagles fought fierce turf wars with the Latin Kings and Vice Lords street gangs. Although the Latin Eagles were well outnumbered, the Latin Eagles were said ...,all first cousins of Jose Cha Cha Jimenez of the Young Lords,got the Latin Eagles to work together ... to another corner.Its also true that they never again sold drugs on Wilton and Grace.The Latin Eagles ... up. By the late 1980s, many Latin Eagles gang members became incarcerated and or addicted to drugs ... who now anchor a foothold in the area. The Latin Eagles were forced to abandon their original stronghold ... the Young Lords were trying to unite the community to fight against. Today, the Latin Eagles exercise ... Park neighborhoods. During the 1990s, the Latin Eagles street gang were able to set up several satellite chapters throughout various States, including Texas and Florida. The Latin Eagles also have several factions that operate as liaison between the organizations hierarchy. The Latin Eagles principle rivals have consisted of the Latin Kings, Vice Lords, Spanish Gangster Disciples, Gangster Disciples ... more details
In combinatorics combinatorial mathematics , a Latin rectangle is an r   ×   n matrix mathematics matrix that has the numbers 1,  2,  3,  ...,  n as its entries with no number occurring more than once in any row or column where  r     n . An n   ×   n Latin rectangle is called a Latin square . If r     n , then it is possible to append n   &minus   r rows to an r   ×   n Latin rectangle to form a Latin square, using Hall s marriage theorem . In statistics , Latin rectangles have applications in the design of experiments . References Leon Mirsky Mirsky, L. Transversal Theory , New York, Academic Press, 1971. Experimental design Category Latin squares Category Statistical terminology Category Design of experiments ... more details
Refimprove date November 2007 Dog Latin , Cod Latin , macaronic Latin , or mock Latin refers to the creation of a phrase or jargon in imitation of Latin , ref name bartleby http www.bartleby.com 81 5146.html Dog Latin , Bartleby.com ref often by translating English words or those of other languages into Latin by Latin conjugation conjugating or latin declension declining them as if they were Latin words. Unlike the similarly named language game Pig Latin a form of spoken Code cryptography code popular among young children , Dog Latin is more of a humorous device for invoking Academia scholarly seriousness. Sometimes dog Latin can mean a poor quality genuine attempt at writing in Latin. More often, correct Latin is mixed with English words for humorous effect or in an attempt to update Latin ... poor Latin, would have done a tolerable job of reinforcing the rhythms of Latin hexameter s Patres conscripti ... with the tail of a dead pig. ref The meter uses Latin vowel quantities for the Latin parts, and to some ... title The comic Latin grammar author Percival Leigh year 1840 accessdate January 16, 2010 The meaning ... Latin , playful learned Latin literature by Irish monks Latino sine Flexione , a constructed language based on Latin, but using only ablative as the standard form Discworld world Latatian Latatian , dog Latin in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett Macaronic language , using a mixture of languages, such as Latin and English New Latin , post mediaeval Latin used for international science Pig Latin ... , a concept in social science Illegitimi non carborundum , dog Latin for Don t let the bastards ... and Cuba si, Castro no Reductio ad Hitlerum , a dog Latin phrase Smugglerius , a dog Latin name for a cast ... Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner , two Looney Tunes characters, are given various dog Latin Linnaean ... Category Latin language Category Humor Category Dog Latin words and phrases Category Macaronic language ar cs Makaronismus de K chenlatein es Lat n macarr nico fa fr Latin macaronique ... more details
File Latin omega uppercase and lowercase.svg thumb Example of uppercase and lowercase Latin omega. Latin omega , or just omega , is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet , based on the lowercase of the Greek letter omega . It was included as a Latin letter in the Mann and Dalby 1982 revision of the African reference alphabet and has been used as such in some publications in Kulango languages in C te d Ivoire in the 1990s. In other Kulango publications the letters V with hook or Latin upsilon are found instead. Encoding Both the majuscule and minuscule form have not been encoded in Unicode nor in ISO 6438 . Bibliography Pascal Boyeldieu, Stefan Elders, Gudrun Miehe. 2008. Grammaire koulango parler de Bouna, C te d Ivoire . K ln R diger K ppe. ISBN 9783896456106 Dioc se de Bondoukou Nassian. 1992. Syllabaire koulango r serv aux l ves des cours bibliques en Koulango Inspir par les syllabaires de la Soci t Internationale de Linguistique, collection Je lis ma langue , Nouvelles ditions Africaines EDICEF . Nassian Dioc se de Bondoukou. Mann, Michael and David Dalby. 1987. A thesaurus of African languages A classified and annotated inventory of the spoken languages of Africa with an appendix on their written representation . London Hans Zell Publishers. Writingsystem stub DEFAULTSORT Omega, latin Category Uncommon Latin letters fr Om ga latin ... more details
Cleanup date July 2008 Unreferenced date July 2008 Infobox Music genre name Latin house bgcolor silver color black stylistic origins House music House br Electronic dance music EDM br Latin American music Latin music , Hip hop , Reggaeton cultural origins New York City and Chicago Late 1980s instruments Sampler musical instrument Sampler Drum machine Synthesizer Sequencer Percussion popularity Latin america derivatives subgenrelist subgenres fusiongenres regional scenes Latin house is an electronic dance music subgenre that mixes together house music house and Latin American music , such as that of Brazil ian, Music of Puerto Rico Puerto Rican , Mexico Mexican , Cuba n, Dominican Republic Dominican ... of house music of Latin American descent gave birth to this genre by releasing house records in Spanish ... Quiero Saber by the Latin Kings, produced by Masters at Work , as well as Everything s All Right ... s Mas Buena and Fiasco s Las Mujeres produced by Norty Cotto, Latin Kaos El Bandolero and Muevete ... Ralphi Rosario and Masters at Work created Latin house classics, for instance Ralphie s production ... Vega and Kenny Gonzales remix Sume Sigh Say by House of Gypsies Todd Terry , and a remarkable Latin ..., who can be heard on the No lo derrumbes and Flavor of the Latin albums. Another merengue house ... are known for their LPs Sandy & Papo and Otra Vez . During the mid 1990s Cutting broke into the Latin ... the most representative producer of Latin house. Among the various hits are 2 In A Room s Las ... of house and Latin American rhythms from that time. Today many other Latino house artists have emerged ... malinverno The Home of Latin House showcase, reviews and forums on Latin House music. http latinhousemessageboard.yuku.com Latin House Message Board a forum focusing on Latin House music. House music footer Category Latin house de House Genres und Stilrichtungen fr Latin house nl Latin house pl Latin house pt Latin house sk Latin house sv Latin house ... more details
Lead missing date December 2011 Image Latin dictionary.jpg thumb 250px A multi volume Latin dictionary in the University Library of Graz Philosophical aims Although Latin was once the universal academic ... Church also modernized its religious liturgies such as the Tridentine Mass from Latin into local ..., the study of Latin has remained an academic staple into the 21st century. Most of the Latin ... texts into modern languages, rather than using Latin for direct oral communication. As such, they primarily treat Latin as a written dead language , although some works of modern literature such as Treasure ... , Green Eggs and Ham , and The Cat in the Hat have been Latin translations of modern literature translated into Latin in order to promote interest in the language. Living Latin Conversely, proponents of the Living Latin movement believe that Latin can be taught in the same way that modern living languages ... sounds of the language, as patterns in Latin poetry and Latin literature literature can be difficult to identify without an understanding of the sounds of words. Living Latin can be seen in action in Schola http schola.ning.com , a social networking site where all transactions are in Latin ... Living Latin instruction include the Vatican City Vatican and the University of Kentucky . In Great Britain , the Classical Association encourages this approach, and Latin language books describing ... Classical Latin, is also broadcast from London. There are several websites offering Nuntii Latini Latin News which usually cover international matters in Finland weekly , in Bremen Germany monthly ... League with more than 50,000 members encourages high school students to pursue the study of Latin ... heavily influenced by Latin the successful language Interlingua considers itself a modernized and simplified version of the language. Latino sine Flexione is a language created from Latin with its ... in Australia Latin is not offered by the mainstream curriculum however it is offered in many ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2011 infobox record label image parent EMI founded founder status Leave blank unless Inactive or Defunct distributor genre Latin music country United States location url http capitollatin.ning.com Capital Latin EMI Televisa Music , also known as EMI Latin and EMI International , is a subsidiary of EMI which focuses on Latin American music . In 1989, Jose Behar , the former head of the Sony Music Latin division, signed Selena with EMI Latin, a record company founded by Behar. Selena became EMI Latin s first artist. Behar later said that the reason he signed Selena was because he thought he had discovered the next Gloria Est fan . Today, popular EMI Latin performers are basically those linked to EMI Televisa Music and Televisa Networks, such as Thal a and RBD , among others such as Maria Daniela y Su Sonido Lasser and Kudai . Also there are reggaeton artists like Flex singer DJ Flex and Tito el Bambino under this label. Artists signed to this label J Balvin A.B. Quintanilla Alejandra Guzm n Aleks Syntek Anah Bebe entertainer Bebe Belinda entertainer Belinda Enrique Bunbury Christian Ch vez Diana Reyes Eiza Gonz lez Flex singer Flex Grupo Bryndis Jaguares band Jaguares Joey Montana Jotdog Juan Luis Guerra Los Claxons Macaco band Macaco Moderatto PXNDX Paty Cant Ricardo Montaner Selena Shaila D rcal Vicente Garcia Vico C Zo See also List of record labels External links Official website http www.emitelevisa.com portal hgxpp001.aspx?11 Category British record labels Category Latin American music record labels Category Latin music Category EMI UK record label stub cs EMI Latin simple EMI Latin ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 SpecialChars Image Latin iota.svg thumb Sample from various typfaces. Latin iota majuscule Unicode , minuscule Unicode is a letter of the Latin alphabet , based on the lowercase of the Greek alphabet Greek letter iota . It was formerly used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the vowel in English language English bit . It was replaced by a small capital I Unicode in 1989, but it can still be found in use in some later works. Unicode has been adopted as a letter in the alphabets of some African languages , such as Kabiy language Kabiy . Its capital form has a hook to distinguish it from capital I . The dotted or accented italic form is very often indistinguishable from the italic letter small I i in serif fonts. Latin alphabet DEFAULTSORT Iota, Latin Category Uncommon Latin letters Category Phonetic transcription symbols Writingsystem stub de fr no zh ... more details