Close front unrounded vowel
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| Edit - 2× | Front | N.-front | Central | N.-back | Back |
| Close | |||||
| Near-close | |||||
| Close-mid | |||||
| Mid | |||||
| Open-mid | |||||
| Near-open | |||||
| Open | |||||
Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.
represents a rounded vowel.
| IPA – number | 301 |
| IPA – text | i |
| IPA – image | 
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| Entity | i |
| X-SAMPA | i |
| Kirshenbaum | i |
| Sound sample | |
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The close front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is i, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is i.
[edit] Features
- Its vowel height is close, which means the tongue is positioned as close as possible to the roof of the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
- Its vowel backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
- Its vowel roundedness is unrounded, which means that the lips are spread.
[edit] Occurs in
The vowel [i] is a very common vowel. It occurs phonemically in almost all languages with three or more vowels, and phonetically it probably occurs in every language. For example:
- Croatian: vino [viːno̞], "wine"
- Dutch: biet [bit]
- English: (RP, GA and AuE) beet [biːt]
- Faroese: il [iːl], "(foot)sole"
- French: fini [fini], "finished"
- German: Ziel [tsiːl], "goal"
- Hungarian: ív [iːv], "arch"
- Icelandic: líka [liːka], "also"
- Italian: qui [kwi], "here"
- Norwegian: is [iːs], "ice"
- Portuguese: li [liː], "I read"
- Polish: i [i], "and"
- Russian: лист [lʲist], "list"
- Scottish Gaelic: i [i], "she"
- Spanish: tipo [ˈt̪ipo], "type"
- Swedish: is [iːs] , "ice"
- Vietnamese: ty [tī], "bureau"cs:Zavřená přední nezaokrouhlená samohláska
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