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Y (named ''wye''〔Also spelled ''wy''.〕 , plural ''wyes'')〔"Y", ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "wy", ''op. cit''.〕 is the 25th and next-to-last letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. In the English writing system it represents either a vowel or a consonant.
==Name==
In Latin, Y was named ''I graeca'', since the classical Greek sound , similar to modern German ''ü'' or French ''u'', was not a native sound for Latin speakers, and the letter was initially only used to spell foreign words. This history has led to the standard modern names of the letter in Romance languages, — in Galician ''i grego'', in Catalan ''i grega'', in French and Romanian ''i grec'' — all meaning "Greek I". The names ''igrek'' in Polish and ' in Vietnamese are both phonetic borrowings of the French name. In Dutch, both ''Griekse ij'' and ''i-grec'' are used. In Spanish, Y is also called ''i griega''; however, in the twentieth century the shorter name ''ye'' was proposed and was officially recognized as its name in 2010 by the Real Academia Española, although its original name is still accepted.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Propuesta de un solo nombre para cada una de las letras del abecedario )〕 The original Greek name υ ψιλον (''upsilon'') has also been adapted into several modern languages: in German, for example, it is called ''Ypsilon'', and in Italian the name is ''ipsilon'' or ''i greca''. In Portuguese, both names are used (''ípsilon'' and ''i grego'').〔()〕
Old English borrowed Latin Y to write the native Old English sound (previously written with the rune yr ). The name of the letter may be related to 'ui' (or 'vi') in various medieval languages; in Middle English it was 'wi' , which through the Great Vowel Shift became the Modern English 'wy' .
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