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Close front unrounded vowel [i]
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The close front unrounded vowel [i] is a vowel phone. It’s a cardinal vowel.
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Features[edit | edit source]
The close front unrounded vowel has the following features:
- Vowel height: It’s a close vowel, also known as high, which means the tongue is positioned close to the roof of the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
- Vowel backness: A front vowel, which means the tongue is positioned forward in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
- Vowel roundedness: It is an unrounded vowel, which means that the lips are not rounded.
Occurrence in English[edit | edit source]
This occurs in English. In both main reference English accents, RP and General American, it’s used for the ꜰʟᴇᴇᴄᴇ vowel phoneme /iː/. This varies somewhat, however, and /i/ is often a slight diphthong.
Representation[edit | edit source]
In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), it has, as its IPA symbol, the lowercase I ⟨i⟩ . Its IPA number is 301. In IPA Braille, it’s represented by Braille pattern dots-24, ⠊.
