Close front unrounded vowel

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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 Template:IPA, 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 Template:IPA
• English: (RP, GA and AuE) beet Template:IPA
• Faroese: il Template:IPA, '(foot)soal', ylur, Template:IPA
• French: fini Template:IPA, 'finished'
• German: Ziel Template:IPA, 'goal'
• Hungarian: ív Template:IPA, 'arch'
• Icelandic: líka Template:IPA, 'also'
• Italian: qui Template:IPA, 'here'
• Portuguese: li Template:IPA, 'I read'
• Polish: i Template:IPA, 'and'
• Spanish: tipo Template:IPA, 'type'
• Swedish: is Template:Audio, 'ice'
• Vietnamese: ty Template:IPA, 'bureau'de:Ungerundeter geschlossener Vorderzungenvokal

es:Vocal cerrada anterior no redondeada fr:Voyelle haute antérieure non arrondie ko:전설 비원순 고모음 ja:非円唇前舌狭母音 ro:Vocală închisă anterioară nerotunjită