Close front unrounded vowel
vowel sound like "ee" in English
The close front unrounded vowel(also called high front unrounded vowel), is a type of vowel. It is an i in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It sounds like the English word meet. It is also called a long-e in American English.[1] In English this sound has more length then it should and is not usually pronounced as a pure vowel(it is a diphthong).[2] A pure [i] sound can be heard in languages such as French with words like chic.
Close front unrounded vowel | |
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{{Bold text{ipa symbol|}}} | |
IPA number | 301 |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | i |
Unicode (hex) | U+0069 |
X-SAMPA | i |
Kirshenbaum | i |
Sound | |
Vowels beside dots are: unrounded • rounded
In languages
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Afrikaans[3] | dief | [dif] | 'thief' | See Afrikaans phonology | |
Arabic | Standard[4] | دين/diin | [d̪iːn] | 'religion' | See Arabic phonology |
Catalan[5] | sic | [ˈsik] | 'sic' | See Catalan phonology | |
Chinese | Mandarin[6][7] | 七 / qī | [tɕʰi˥] | 'seven' | See Standard Chinese phonology |
Chuvash | çип | [ɕ̬ip] | 'thread' | ||
Czech[8][9] | bílý | [ˈbiːliː] | 'white' | See Czech phonology | |
Dutch[10][11] | biet | [bit] | 'beet' | See Dutch phonology | |
English[12] | All dialects | free | [fɹiː] | 'free' | In certain dialects, it can be pronunced as a diphthong. See English phonology |
Australian[13] | bit | [bit] | 'bit' | Also described as near-close front [ɪ̟].[14] See Australian English phonology | |
French[15][16] | fini | [fini] | 'finished' | See French phonology | |
German[17][18] | Ziel | [t͡siːl] | 'goal' | See Standard German phonology | |
Greek | Modern Standard[19][20] | κήπος / kípos | [ˈc̠ipo̞s̠] | 'garden' | See Modern Greek phonology |
Hungarian[21] | ív | [iːv] | 'arch' | See Hungarian phonology | |
Italian[22] | bile | [ˈbiːle̞] | 'rage' | See Italian phonology | |
Japanese[23] | 銀/gin | [ɡʲiɴ] | 'silver' | See Japanese phonology | |
Khmer | លទ្ធិ / lôtthĭ | [lattʰiʔ] | 'doctrine' | See Khmer phonology | |
Korean[24] | 아이 / ai | [ɐi] | 'child' | See Korean phonology | |
Kurdish[25][26] | Kurmanji (Northern) | şîr | [ʃiːɾ] | 'milk' | See Kurdish phonology |
Sorani (Central) | شیر/šîr | ||||
Palewani (Southern) | |||||
Lithuanian | vyras | [viːrɐs̪] | 'man' | See Lithuanian orthography | |
Malay | Malaysian Malay | ikut | [i.kʊt] | 'to follow' | See Malay phonology |
Polish[27] | miś | [ˈmʲiɕ] | 'teddy bear' | See Polish phonology | |
Portuguese[28] | fino | [ˈfinu] (help·info) | 'thin' | Also occurs as an unstressed allophone of other vowels. May be represented by ⟨y⟩. See Portuguese phonology | |
Romanian[29] | insulă | [ˈin̪s̪ulə] | 'island' | See Romanian phonology | |
Rungus[30] | rikot | [ˈri.kot] | 'to come' | ||
Russian[31] | лист/list | [lʲis̪t̪] | 'leaf' | Will only be used after palatalized consonants. See Russian phonology | |
Serbo-Croatian[32] | vile | [ʋîle̞] | 'hayfork' | See Serbo-Croatian phonology | |
Spanish[33] | tipo | [ˈt̪ipo̞] | 'type' | Can be written by ⟨y⟩. See Spanish phonology | |
Sotho[34] | ho bitsa | [huˌbit͡sʼɑ̈] | 'to call' | Contrasts close, near-close and close-mid front unrounded vowels.[34] See Sotho phonology | |
Swedish | Central Standard[35][36] | bli | [bliː] | 'to stay' | See Swedish phonology |
Thai[37] | กริช/krit | [krìt] | 'dagger' | ||
Turkish[38][39] | ip | [ip] | 'rope' | See Turkish phonology | |
Ukrainian[40] | місто/misto | ['misto] | 'city, town' | See Ukrainian phonology | |
Welsh | es i | [eːs iː] | 'I went' | See Welsh phonology | |
Yoruba[41] | síbí | [síbí] | 'spoon' |
Notes
References
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