I is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.^{[1]: 549–551}

Mongolian language

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I
The Mongolian script
Mongolian vowels
ᠠ​ a ᠡ​ e ᠢ​ i ᠣ​ o ᠤ​ u ᠥ​ ö ᠦ​ ü ᠧ​ (ē)
Mongolian consonants
ᠨ​ n ᠩ​ ng ᠪ​ b ᠫ​ (p) ᠬ​ q/k ᠭ​ γ/g ᠮ​ m ᠯ​ l ᠰ​ s ᠱ​ š ᠲ​ t ᠳ​ d ᠴ​ č ᠵ​ ǰ ᠶ​ y ᠷ​ r ᠸ​ (w)
Foreign consonants
Mongolian script multigraphs
v t e

Letter[2]: 17, 19 [3]: 546
i	Transliteration[note 1]
ᠢ[a]	Alone
ᠢ‍	Initial
‍ᠢ‍	Medial (syllable-initial)
[b]	Medial (syllable-final)
‍ᠢ	Final

Separated suffixes[note 2]
‑i	Transliteration
ᠢ‍⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩	Initial
ᠢ⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩	Whole

• Transcribes Chakhar /i/ or /ɪ/;^[8][9] Khalkha /i/, /ə/, and /∅/.^{[10]: 40–42} Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter и.^[11][4]
• Today, often absorbed into a preceding syllable when at the end of a word.^{[citation needed]}
• Written medially with the single long tooth after a consonant, and with two after a vowel (with rare exceptions like ᠨᠠ‍ᠢ‍ᠮᠠ naima 'eight' or ᠨᠠ‍ᠢ‍ᠮᠠᠨ naiman 'eight'/tribal name).^{[2]: 31 [12]: 9, 39 [13]: 38}
• ‍ᠢ᠋‍ = a handwritten Inner Mongolian variant on the sequence yi (as in ᠰᠠᠶ᠋ᠢᠨ / ᠰᠠᠶᠢᠨ sayin 'good' being written ᠰᠠᠢ᠋ᠨ sain).^{[12]: 58 [13]: 38}
  • Also the medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.^[13]: 44
• Derived from Old Uyghur yodh (𐽶), preceded by an aleph (𐽰) for isolate and initial forms.^{[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [14]: 111, 113 [13]: 35}
• Produced with I using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.^[15]
• In the Mongolian Unicode block, i comes after e and before o.

Clear Script

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Xibe language

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Manchu language

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