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{{short description|Latin letter Y with macron}}
[[File:Latin letter Y with macron.svg|thumb|Latin Y with macron]]
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'''Ȳ''' ([[Lower case|minuscule]]: '''ȳ''') is a letter of the [[Latin alphabet]], formed from [[Y]] with the addition of a [[Macron (diacritic)|macron]] (¯).

In modern dictionaries and textbooks for [[Latin]] and [[Old English]], ȳ may be used to indicate a long "y" ({{IPAblink|yː}}). In Latin, this only occurs in [[loanword]]s. It is used in [[Cornish language|Cornish]], and was used in [[Livonian language|Livonian]].<ref>[https://www.kirj.ee/public/Linguistica_Uralica/2007/issue_1/ling-2007-1-2.pdf Livonian Orthography.]</ref>

== Unicode ==
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|0232|name1=Latin Capital Letter Y with Macron
|0233|name2=Latin Small Letter Y with Macron
}}

== See also ==
* [[U with macron (Cyrillic)]] ('''Ӯ''', '''ӯ''') - a similar looking character

==References==
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