See also:ی [U+06CC ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH], ي [U+064A ARABIC LETTER YEH], ې [U+06D0 ARABIC LETTER E], ۍ [U+06CD ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH TAIL], ۓ [U+06D3 ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE WITH HAMZA ABOVE], andئ [U+0626 ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE]
Also the final or isolated form of ي in the Nile Valley, when typed on electronic devices, which looks similar in shape to the Persian ی in its final or isolated form.
Only written in the final position, transliterated ā. Called أَلِف مَقْصُورَة(ʔalif maqṣūra, “limited, restricted alif”) or أَلِف لَيِّنَة(ʔalif layyina, “flexible alif”). In the rare case of a rasm version of Quran, it is the yāʾ version.
Represents the back vowel phoneme /ə/, unless a small ء (hamza) was placed in the beginning of the word. In Kazakh the Hamza marks that all vowels in the following word are fronted. If ى is the initial letter of a word and is representing a front vowel, it is combined with the hamza and the variant ٸ is used.
