Close front unrounded vowel
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| Edit - 2× | Front | N.-front | Central | N.-back | Back |
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| Mid | |||||
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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 | Image:Xsampa-i.png |
| entity | i |
| X-SAMPA | i |
| Kirshenbaum | i |
| Sound sample ▶(?) | |
|---|---|
The close front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is i, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is i.
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.
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.
- Dutch: vier [viʲʁ], 'four'
- English: (RP, GA and AuE) beet [biʲt]
- French: fini [fini], 'finished'
- German: Ziel [tsiːl], 'goal'
- Hungarian: ív [iːv], 'arch'
- Japanese: 木 [ki], 'tree'
- Romanian: piti [pi'ti], 'to hide'
- Spanish: tipo [ˈtipo], 'type'
- Swedish: is Image:Loudspeaker.png [iʲs], 'ice'
- Vietnamese: ty [tī], 'bureau'
