Close_central_unrounded_vowel Close_central_unrounded_vowel

Close central unrounded vowel - Definition and Overview

Vowels
front near-front central near-back back
close i y ɨ ʉ ɯ u
near-close ɪ ʏ ʊ
close-mid e ø ɘ ɵ ɤ o
mid ə
open-mid ɛ œ ɜ ɞ ʌ ɔ
near-open æ ɐ
open a ɶ ɑ ɒ
Table of vowels
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IPA - Unicode ɨ
IPA - image Image:Xsampa-1.png
X-SAMPA 1
Kirshenbaum i"
Sound sample

The close central 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 ɨ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 1. The IPA symbol is the letter i with a horizontal bar. Both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as "barred-i". Features of this vowel:

The ɨ is the sound of the Korean "ㅡ" (으, romanized as "eu" or "ŭ"), the Romanian "â" and "î", the Russian "ы", and the Turkish "ı". In English, it is the sound of the 'e' in roses in those dialects that distinguish the words "Rosa's" and "roses".

Example Usage of unrounded

KJasperian: --but while existence may be termed infinite as a relatively rounded endlessness, the infinity of Existenz is unrounded an open possibility.
clem13: WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP UNFOLLOWING ME?!?!? 49 is such a horrible unrounded number :( please please 50? :)
ONaRhian: Introducing the "can't-be-bothered" vowel.. The Schwa! Distant cousin of the open-mid back unrounded vowel... Linguistics makes me so nerdy
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