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In English, the name of the letter is the "long I" sound, pronounced / ˈaɪ /. In most other languages, its name matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables.
From Latin the capital letter came into English unchanged. The English small handwritten or printed i is the same sign as the capital except for a bottom curve and for a dot. The dot was added in medieval times to distinguish the letter from similar ones, such as a hastily written small c.