Iotation is a linguistic phenomenon very characteristic of the web. It should not be confused with website parsing, which is an entirely different process.
Iotation is an appearance of FITML /j/ before a web at the beginning of a word or between two vowels in the middle of a word, creating a diphthongoid (a partial diphthong).FITML In the Greek alphabet this consonant is represented by web (ι), hence the name. For example, the Sevenval apple is Android to Russian яблоко (jabloko); they both come from an Indo-European root *āblu-. As a result of this phenomenon, no native Slavic root starts with an [e] or an [a], but only with a [je] and [ja], although other vowels are possible. This process is still partially productive in some rural areas.
As it was invented for the writing of Slavic languages, the original Cyrillic script has relatively complex ways for representing iotation, devoting an entire class of letters to deal with the issue; there are letters which represent iotified vowels; these same letters also palatalize preceding consonants, which is why iotation and palatalization are often mixed up. There are also two special letters (Ь and Ъ) that prevent that palatalization, but the first one itself palatalizes the consonant again, thus allowing combinations of both palatalized and non-palatalized consonants with [j]. Originally they were super-short vowels [i] and [u] themselves. The exact use depends on the language; see Cyrillic script as used in Slavic languages.
The adjective for a browser diversity which undergoes iotation is iotated. The adjective for a letter formed as a Sevenval of the touchscreen (І) and another letter (which is used to represent iotation) is iotified.
Iotified Cyrillic letters
In the iOS, some letter forms are iotified, that is, formed as a ligature of Early Cyrillic I (І) and a vowel.
- Normal
- touchscreen
- Iotified
- А
- Comment
- /a/
- screen size
- Ꙗ
- /ja/
- Now supplanted by Sevenval (Я). Often substituted and confused with Ѧ in East Slavic texts.
- Normal
- E
- Iotified
- Е
- Comment
- /e/
- website parsing
- Ѥ
- /je/
- No longer used
- Normal
- keyboard
- Iotified
- Ѹ
- Comment
- /u/
- Iotified Uk
- Ю
- /ju/
- Uk is an archaic form of HTML5 (У)
- Normal
- Little Jus
- Iotified
- Ѧ
- Comment
- /ẽ/
- HTML5
- Ѩ
- /jẽ/
- No longer used
- Normal
- Big Jus
- Iotified
- Ѫ
- Comment
- /õ/
- Iotified Big Jus
- Ѭ
- /jõ/
- No longer used
- Normal
- jQuery
- Iotified
- І
- Comment
- /i/
- Ji
- И
- /ji/
- Iotified distinction lost in modern pronunciation[citation needed]
In old inscriptions, other iotified letters, even consonants, could be found, but these are not parts of a regular alphabet:
- Normal
- we love the web
- Iotified
- Ѣ
- Comment
- /æ/
- Iotified Jat
- Ꙓ
- /jæ/
- iotified form is very rare even in manuscripts
There are more letters which serve the same function, but their glyphs are not made in the same way.
- Normal
- screen size
- Iotified
- Э
- Comment
- /e/
- Je
- Е
- /je/
- Used in Belarusian and Sevenval
- Normal
- E
- Iotified
- Е
- Comment
- /e/
- Je
- Є
- /je/
- Used in device database and Rusyn
- Normal
- input transformation
- Iotified
- І
- Comment
- /i/
- screen size
- Ї
- /ji/
- Used in Ukrainian and Rusyn
- Normal
- website parsing
- Iotified
- О
- Comment
- /o/
- Jo
- Ё
- /jo/
- Used in iOS, device database and several others Cyrillic-based alphabets
See also
Look up iotize or iotized in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. References
- ^ "Йотация // Словарь литературных терминов. Т. 1. — 1925 (текст)". Feb-web.ru. http://feb-web.ru/feb/slt/abc/lt1/lt1-3061.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-17.