Editing Y (section)

===Other languages===
In some of the [[Nordic languages]], {{angbr|y}} is used to represent the sound {{IPA|/y/}}. The distinction between {{IPA|/y/}} and {{IPA|/i/}} has been lost in [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] and [[Faroese language|Faroese]], making the distinction purely orthographic and historical. A similar merger of {{IPA|/y/}} into {{IPA|/i/}} happened in Greek around the beginning of the 2nd millennium, making the distinction between iota (Ι, ι) and upsilon (Υ, υ) purely a matter of historical spelling there as well. The distinction is retained in [[Danish language|Danish]], [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], and [[Swedish language|Swedish]].

In the [[West Slavic languages]], {{angbr|y}} was adopted as a sign for the close central unrounded vowel {{IPA|/ɨ/}}; later, {{IPA|/ɨ/}} merged with {{IPA|/i/}} in Czech and Slovak, whereas Polish retains it with the pronunciation {{IPA|[ɘ]}}. Similarly, in [[Middle Welsh]], {{angbr|y}} came to be used to designate the vowels {{IPA|/ɨ/}} and {{IPA|/ɘ/}} in a way predictable from the position  of the vowel in the word. Since then, {{IPA|/ɨ/}} has merged with {{IPA|/i/}} in Southern Welsh dialects, but {{IPA|/ɘ/}} is retained.