Close_front_unrounded_vowel Close_front_unrounded_vowel

Close front 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
List of vowels
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IPA - Unicode i
IPA - image Image:Xsampa-i.png
X-SAMPA i
Kirshenbaum i
Sound sample

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 i, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is i. Features of this vowel:

  • 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 not rounded.

This vowel occurs in English, and is the sound represented by the letters ee in beet or the letters ea in heat.

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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