Close front unrounded vowel
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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 | |
| IPA – image | 
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| Entity | i |
| X-SAMPA | i |
| Kirshenbaum | i |
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.
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. For example:
- Dutch: biet [bit]
- English: (RP, GA and AuE) beet [biːt]
- Faroese: il [iːl], '(foot)soal', ylur, [iːlʊɾ]
- French: fini [fini], 'finished'
- German: Ziel [tsiːl], 'goal'
- Hungarian: ív [iːv], 'arch'
- Icelandic: líka [liːka], 'also'
- Italian: qui [kwi], 'here'
- Portuguese: li [liː]], 'I read'
- Polish: i [i], 'and'
- Scottish Gaelic: i [i] 'she'
- Spanish: tipo [ˈt̪ipo], 'type'
- Swedish: is [[iːs]] , 'ice'
- Vietnamese: ty [tī], 'bureau'
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