Close front unrounded vowel

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Close front unrounded vowel
i
IPA number301
Encoding
Entity (decimal)i
Unicode (hex)U+0069
X-SAMPAi
 


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.

In languages

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Afrikaans[3] d'ie'f [dif] 'thief' See Afrikaans phonology
Arabic Standard[4] دين/diin [d̪iːn] 'religion' See Arabic phonology
Catalan[5] s'i'c [ˈsik] 'sic' See Catalan phonology
Chinese Mandarin[6][7] 七 / q'ī' [tɕʰi˥] (help·info) 'seven' See Standard Chinese phonology
Chuvash çип [ɕ̬ip] 'thread'
Czech[8][9] b'í'l'ý' [ˈbiːliː] (help·info) 'white' See Czech phonology
Dutch[10][11] b'ie't [bit] (help·info) 'beet' See Dutch phonology
English[12] All dialects free [fɹiː] (help·info) '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] f'i'n'i' [fini] 'finished' See French phonology
German[17][18] Z'ie'l [t͡siːl] (help·info) 'goal' See Standard German phonology
Greek Modern Standard[19][20] κ'ή'πος / kípos [ˈc̠ipo̞s̠] 'garden' See Modern Greek phonology
Hungarian[21] 'ív' [iːv] 'arch' See Hungarian phonology
Italian[22] b'i'le [ˈbiːle̞] 'rage' See Italian phonology
Japanese[23] 銀/g'i'n [ɡʲiɴ] (help·info) 'silver' See Japanese phonology
Khmer លទ្ធិ / lôtthĭ [lattʰiʔ] 'doctrine' See Khmer phonology
Korean[24] 아이 / a'i' [ɐi] 'child' See Korean phonology
Kurdish[25][26] Kurmanji (Northern) ş'î'r [ʃiːɾ] 'milk' See Kurdish phonology
Sorani (Central) شیر/šîr
Palewani (Southern)
Lithuanian v'y'ras [viːrɐs̪] 'man' See Lithuanian orthography
Malay Malaysian Malay ikut [i.kʊt] 'to follow' See Malay phonology
Polish[27] m'i'ś [ˈmʲiɕ] (help·info) 'teddy bear' See Polish phonology
Portuguese[28] f'i'no [ˈfinu] (help·info) 'thin' Also occurs as an unstressed allophone of other vowels. May be represented by ⟨y⟩. See Portuguese phonology
Romanian[29] 'i'nsulă [ˈin̪s̪ulə] 'island' See Romanian phonology
Rungus[30] r'i'kot [ˈri.kot] 'to come'
Russian[31] л'и'ст/list [lʲis̪t̪] (help·info) 'leaf' Will only be used after palatalized consonants. See Russian phonology
Serbo-Croatian[32] v'i'le [ʋîle̞] 'hayfork' See Serbo-Croatian phonology
Spanish[33] t'i'po [ˈt̪ipo̞] 'type' Can be written by ⟨y⟩. See Spanish phonology
Sotho[34] ho b'i'tsa [huˌbit͡sʼɑ̈] 'to call' Contrasts close, near-close and close-mid front unrounded vowels.[34] See Sotho phonology
Swedish Central Standard[35][36] bl'i' [bliː] 'to stay' See Swedish phonology
Thai[37] กริช/krit [krìt] 'dagger'
Turkish[38][39] 'i'p [ip] 'rope' See Turkish phonology
Ukrainian[40] м'і'сто/misto ['misto] 'city, town' See Ukrainian phonology
Welsh es i [eːs iː] 'I went' See Welsh phonology
Yoruba[41] s'í'b'í' [síbí] 'spoon'

Notes

  1. ↑ Maddox, Maeve. DailyWritingTips: The Six Spellings of "Long E". www.dailywritingtips.com. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ Labov, William. The Atlas of North American English (2006). Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-016746-7.
  3. ↑ Donaldson (1993), p. 2.
  4. ↑ Thelwall (1990), p. 38.
  5. ↑ Carbonell & Llisterri (1992), p. 54.
  6. ↑ Lee & Zee (2003), p. 110.
  7. ↑ Duanmu (2007), pp. 35–36.
  8. ↑ Dankovičová (1999), p. 72.
  9. ↑ Šimáčková, Podlipský & Chládková (2012), p. 228.
  10. ↑ Gussenhoven (1992), p. 47.
  11. ↑ Verhoeven (2005), p. 245.
  12. ↑ Roach (2004), p. 240.
  13. ↑ Cox & Palethorpe (2007), p. 344.
  14. ↑ Cox & Fletcher (2017), p. 65.
  15. ↑ Fougeron & Smith (1993), p. 73.
  16. ↑ Collins & Mees (2013), p. 225.
  17. ↑ Hall (2003), pp. 78, 107.
  18. ↑ Dudenredaktion, Kleiner & Knöbl (2015), p. 34.
  19. ↑ Arvaniti (2007), p. 28.
  20. ↑ Trudgill (2009), p. 81.
  21. ↑ Szende (1994), p. 92.
  22. ↑ Rogers & d'Arcangeli (2004), p. 119.
  23. ↑ Okada (1999), p. 117.
  24. ↑ Lee (1999), p. 121.
  25. ↑ Thackston (2006a), p. 1.
  26. ↑ Khan & Lescot (1970), pp. 8-16.
  27. ↑ Jassem (2003), p. 105.
  28. ↑ Cruz-Ferreira (1995), p. 92.
  29. ↑ Sarlin (2014), p. 18.
  30. ↑ Forschner, T. A.. Outline of A Momogun Grammar (Rungus Dialect) (December 1994). Kudat. p. 6.
  31. ↑ Jones & Ward (1969), p. 30.
  32. ↑ Landau et al. (1999), p. 67.
  33. ↑ Martínez-Celdrán, Fernández-Planas & Carrera-Sabaté (2003), p. 256.
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 Doke & Mofokeng (1974), p. ?.
  35. ↑ Engstrand (1999), p. 140.
  36. ↑ Riad (2014), p. 21.
  37. ↑ Tingsabadh & Abramson (1993), p. 24.
  38. ↑ Zimmer & Organ (1999), p. 155.
  39. ↑ Göksel & Kerslake (2005), p. 10.
  40. ↑ Danyenko & Vakulenko (1995), p. 4.
  41. ↑ Bamgboṣe (1969), p. 166.

References

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