w:Close front unrounded vowel

{{Infobox IPA

|ipa symbol=i

|ipa number=301

|decimal=105

|x-sampa=i

|kirshenbaum=i

|braille=i

|imagefile=IPA Unicode 0x0069.svg

}}

File:Spectrogram of close front unrounded vowel (IPA i).png

File:IPA i Sagittal Section.svg of a vocal tract pronouncing the IPA sound {{angbr IPA|i}}. Note that a wavy glottis in this diagram indicates a voiced sound.]]

The close front unrounded vowel, or high front unrounded vowel,{{Vowel terminology}} is a type of vowel sound that occurs in most spoken languages, represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet by the symbol i. It is similar to the vowel sound in the English word meet—and often called long-e in American English.{{cite web |url=http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-six-spellings-of-long-e/ |title=DailyWritingTips: The Six Spellings of "Long E" |last=Maddox |first=Maeve |website=www.dailywritingtips.com |date=18 September 2007 |access-date=July 20, 2014}} Although in English this sound has additional length (usually being represented as {{IPA|/iː/}}) and is not normally pronounced as a pure vowel (it is a slight diphthong), some dialects have been reported to pronounce the phoneme as a pure sound.{{cite book|last1=Labov|first1=William|last2=Sharon|first2=Ash|last3=Boberg|first3=Charles|title=The Atlas of North American English|date=2006|publisher=Mouton-de Gruyter|location=Berlin|isbn=978-3-11-016746-7|at=chpt. 17}} A pure {{IPA|[i]}} sound is also heard in many other languages, such as French, in words like chic.

The close front unrounded vowel is the vocalic equivalent of the palatal approximant {{IPA|[j]}}. They alternate with each other in certain languages, such as French, and in the diphthongs of some languages, {{IPA|[i̯]}} with the non-syllabic diacritic and {{IPA|[j]}} are used in different transcription systems to represent the same sound.

Languages that use the Latin script commonly use the letter {{angle bracket|i}} to represent this sound, though there are some exceptions: in English orthography that letter is usually associated with {{IPA|/aɪ/}} (as in bite) or {{IPA|/ɪ/}} (as in bit), and {{IPA|/iː/}} is more commonly represented by {{angle bracket|e}}, {{angle bracket|ea}}, {{angle bracket|ee}}, {{angle bracket|ie}} or {{angle bracket|ei}}, as in the words scene, bean, meet, niece, conceive; (see Great Vowel Shift). Irish orthography reflects both etymology and whether preceding consonants are broad or slender, so such combinations as {{angle bracket|aí}}, {{angle bracket|ei}}, and {{angle bracket|aío}} all represent {{IPA|/iː/}}.

Features

Occurrence

class="wikitable" style="clear: both;" ! colspan="2" \| Language !! Word !! IPA !! Meaning !! Notes
colspan="2" \| Afrikaans{{sfnp\|Donaldson\|1993\|p=2}}	{{lang\|af\|dief}}	{{IPA\|[dif]}}	'thief'	See Afrikaans phonology
Arabic	Standard{{sfnp\|Thelwall\|1990\|p=38}}	{{lang\|ar\|دين\|rtl=yes}}/diin	{{IPA\|[d̪iːn]}}	'religion'	See Arabic phonology
colspan="2" \| Catalan{{sfnp\|Carbonell\|Llisterri\|1992\|p=54}}	{{lang\|ca\|sic}}	{{IPA\|[ˈsik]}}	'sic'	See Catalan phonology
Chinese	Mandarin{{sfnp\|Lee\|Zee\|2003\|p=110}}{{sfnp\|Duanmu\|2007\|pp=35–36}}	{{lang\|cmn-Hani\|七}} / {{lang\|cmn-Latn\|qī}}	{{Audio-IPA\|Zh-qī.ogg\|[tɕʰi˥]\|help=no}}	'seven'	See Standard Chinese phonology
colspan="2" \|Chuvash \|çип \|[ɕ̬ip] \|'thread' \|
colspan="2" \| Czech{{sfnp\|Dankovičová\|1999\|p=72}}{{sfnp\|Šimáčková\|Podlipský\|Chládková\|2012\|p=228}}	{{lang\|cs\|bílý}}	{{Audio-IPA\|Cs-bílý.ogg\|[ˈbiːliː]\|help=no}}	'white'	See Czech phonology
colspan="2" \| Dutch{{sfnp\|Gussenhoven\|1992\|p=47}}{{sfnp\|Verhoeven\|2005\|p=245}}	{{lang\|nl\|biet}}	{{Audio-IPA\|Nl-biet.ogg\|[bit]\|help=no}}	'beet'	See Dutch phonology
rowspan="2" \| English{{sfnp\|Roach\|2004\|p=240}}	Most dialects	free	{{Audio-IPA\|En-us-free.ogg\|[fɹ̠iː]\|help=no}}	'free'	Depending on dialect, can be pronounced as {{IPA\|[ɪi]}}. See English phonology
Australian{{sfnp\|Cox\|Palethorpe\|2007\|p=344}}	bit	{{IPA\|[bit]}}	'bit'	Also described as near-close front {{IPAblink\|ɪ\|ɪ̟}}.{{sfnp\|Cox\|Fletcher\|2017\|p=65}} See Australian English phonology
colspan="2" \| French{{sfnp\|Fougeron\|Smith\|1993\|p=73}}{{sfnp\|Collins\|Mees\|2013\|p=225}}	{{lang\|fr\|fini}}	{{IPA\|[fini]}}	'finished'	See French phonology
colspan="2" \| German{{sfnp\|Hall\|2003\|pp=78, 107}}{{sfnp\|Dudenredaktion\|Kleiner\|Knöbl\|2015\|p=34}}	{{lang\|de\|Ziel}}	{{Audio-IPA\|De-Ziel.ogg\|[t͡siːl]\|help=no}}	'goal'	See Standard German phonology
Greek	Modern Standard{{sfnp\|Arvaniti\|2007\|p=28}}{{sfnp\|Trudgill\|2009\|p=81}}	{{lang\|el\|κήπος}} / kípos	{{IPA\|[ˈc̠i.po̞s̠]}}	'garden'	See Modern Greek phonology
Hebrew{{Citation needed\|date=July 2022}}	Modern Standard	{{lang\|he\|חשיבה}}	{{IPA\|[χäʃivä]}}	'thinking'	See Modern Hebrew phonology
colspan="2" \| Hungarian{{sfnp\|Szende\|1994\|p=92}}	{{lang\|hu\|ív}}	{{IPA\|[iːv]}}	'arch'	See Hungarian phonology
colspan="2" \| Italian{{sfnp\|Rogers\|d'Arcangeli\|2004\|p=119}}	{{lang\|it\|bile}}	{{IPA\|[ˈbiːle̞]}}	'rage'	See Italian phonology
colspan="2" \| Japanese{{sfnp\|Okada\|1999\|p=117}}	{{lang\|ja\|銀}}/{{lang\|ja-Latn\|gin}}	{{Audio-IPA\|ja-gin.ogg\|[ɡʲiɴ]\|help=no}}	'silver'	See Japanese phonology
colspan="2" \| Khmer	{{lang\|km\|លទ្ធិ}} / {{Transliteration\|km\|lôtthĭ}}	{{IPA\|[lattʰiʔ]}}	'doctrine'	See Khmer phonology
colspan="2" \| Korean{{sfnp\|Lee\|1999\|p=121}}	{{lang\|ko\|아이}} / {{lang\|ko-Latn\|ai}}	{{IPA\|[ɐi]}}	'child'	See Korean phonology
rowspan="3" \|Kurdish{{sfnp\|Thackston\|2006a\|p=1}}{{sfnp\|Khan\|Lescot\|1970\|pp=8-16}} \|Kurmanji (Northern) \|{{lang\|ku\|şîr}} \| rowspan="3" \|{{IPA\|[ʃiːɾ]}} \| rowspan="3" \|'milk' \| rowspan="3" \|See Kurdish phonology
Sorani (Central) \| rowspan="2" \|{{lang\|ku\|شیر}}/şîr
Palewani (Southern)
colspan="2" \| Lithuanian	{{lang\|lt\|vyras}}	{{IPA\|[viːrɐs̪]}}	'man'	See Lithuanian orthography
Malay \|Malaysian Malay \|ikut \|[i.kʊt] \|'to follow' \|See Malay phonology
colspan="2" \| Malayalam \|ഇല \|{{IPA\|[ilɐ]}} \|'leaf' \|See Malayalam phonology
colspan="2" \| Mpade{{sfnp\|Allison\|2006}}	{{lang\|mpi\|fli}}	{{IPA\|[fli]}}	'monkey'
colspan="2" \| Polish{{sfnp\|Jassem\|2003\|p=105}}	{{lang\|pl\|miś}}	{{Audio-IPA\|Pl-miś-2.ogg\|[ˈmʲiɕ]\|help=no}}	'teddy bear'	See Polish phonology
colspan="2" \| Portuguese{{sfnp\|Cruz-Ferreira\|1995\|p=92}}	{{lang\|pt\|fino}}	{{Audio-IPA\|Fino_european_pt.wav\|[ˈfinu]}}	'thin'	Also occurs as an unstressed allophone of other vowels. May be represented by {{angle bracket\|y}}. See Portuguese phonology
colspan="2" \| Romanian{{sfnp\|Sarlin\|2014\|p=18}}	{{lang\|ro\|insulă}}	{{IPA\|[ˈin̪s̪ulə]}}	'island'	See Romanian phonology
colspan="2" \| Rungus{{cite book \|last=Forschner \|first=T. A. \|date=December 1994 \|title=Outline of A Momogun Grammar (Rungus Dialect) \|url=http://www.ebfo.de/rungus/Rungus-Grammar_A4.pdf \|url-status=live \|location=Kudat \|page=6 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215060059/http://www.ebfo.de/rungus/Rungus-Grammar_A4.pdf \|archive-date=15 February 2020}}	{{lang\|drg\|rikot}}	{{IPA\|[ˈri.kot]}}	'to come'
colspan="2" \| Russian{{sfnp\|Jones\|Ward\|1969\|p=30}}	{{lang\|ru\|лист}}/list	{{Audio-IPA\|Ru-лист.ogg\|[lʲis̪t̪]\|help=no}}	'leaf'	Only occurs word-initially or after palatalized consonants. See Russian phonology
colspan="2" \| Serbo-Croatian{{sfnp\|Landau\|Lončarića\|Horga\|Škarić\|1999\|p=67}}	{{lang\|sh-Cyrl\|виле}} / {{lang\|sh-Latn\|vile}}	{{IPA\|[ʋîle̞]}}	'hayfork'	See Serbo-Croatian phonology
colspan="2" \| Spanish{{sfnp\|Martínez-Celdrán\|Fernández-Planas\|Carrera-Sabaté\|2003\|p=256}}	{{lang\|es\|tipo}}	{{IPA\|[ˈt̪ipo̞]}}	'type'	May also be represented by {{angle bracket\|y}}. See Spanish phonology
colspan="2" \| Sotho{{sfnp\|Doke\|Mofokeng\|1974\|p=?}}	{{lang\|st\|ho bitsa}}	{{IPA\|[huˌbit͡sʼɑ̈]}}	'to call'	Contrasts close, near-close and close-mid front unrounded vowels.{{sfnp\|Doke\|Mofokeng\|1974\|p=?}} See Sotho phonology
Swedish	Central Standard{{sfnp\|Engstrand\|1999\|p=140}}{{sfnp\|Riad\|2014\|p=21}}	{{lang\|sv\|bli}}	{{IPA\|[bliː]}}	'to become'	Often realized as a sequence {{IPA\|[ij]}} or {{IPA\|[iʝ]}} (hear the word: {{Audio-IPA\|sv-bli.ogg\|[blij]\|help=no}}); it may also be fricated {{IPA\|[iᶻː]}} or, in some regions, fricated and centralized ({{IPAblink\|ɨ\|ɨᶻː}}).{{sfnp\|Riad\|2014\|p=21}}{{sfnp\|Engstrand\|1999\|p=141}} See Swedish phonology
colspan="2" \| Tagalog	{{lang\|tl\|ibon}}	{{IPA\|[ˈʔibɔn]}}	'bird'
colspan="2" \| Thai{{sfnp\|Tingsabadh\|Abramson\|1993\|p=24}}	{{lang\|th\|กริช}}/krit	{{IPA\|[krìt]}}	'dagger'
colspan="2" \| Turkish{{sfnp\|Zimmer\|Orgun\|1999\|p=155}}{{sfnp\|Göksel\|Kerslake\|2005\|p=10}}	{{lang\|tr\|ip}}	{{IPA\|[ip]}}	'rope'	See Turkish phonology
colspan="2" \| Ukrainian{{sfnp\|Danyenko\|Vakulenko\|1995\|p=4}}	{{lang\|uk\|місто}}/misto	{{IPA\|['misto]}}	'city, town'	See Ukrainian phonology
colspan="2" \|Welsh \|es i \|[eːs iː] \|'I went' \|See Welsh phonology
colspan="2" \| Yoruba{{sfnp\|Bamgboṣe\|1966\|p=166}}	{{lang\|yo\|síbí}}	{{IPA\|[síbí]}}	'spoon'

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class="wikitable" style="clear: both;" ! colspan="2" \| Language !! Word !! IPA !! Meaning !! Notes
colspan="2" \| Afrikaans{{sfnp\|Donaldson\|1993\|p=2}}	{{lang\|af\|dief}}	{{IPA\|[dif]}}	'thief'	See Afrikaans phonology
Arabic	Standard{{sfnp\|Thelwall\|1990\|p=38}}	{{lang\|ar\|دين\|rtl=yes}}/diin	{{IPA\|[d̪iːn]}}	'religion'	See Arabic phonology
colspan="2" \| Catalan{{sfnp\|Carbonell\|Llisterri\|1992\|p=54}}	{{lang\|ca\|sic}}	{{IPA\|[ˈsik]}}	'sic'	See Catalan phonology
Chinese	Mandarin{{sfnp\|Lee\|Zee\|2003\|p=110}}{{sfnp\|Duanmu\|2007\|pp=35–36}}	{{lang\|cmn-Hani\|七}} / {{lang\|cmn-Latn\|qī}}	{{Audio-IPA\|Zh-qī.ogg\|[tɕʰi˥]\|help=no}}	'seven'	See Standard Chinese phonology
colspan="2" \|Chuvash \|çип \|[ɕ̬ip] \|'thread' \|
colspan="2" \| Czech{{sfnp\|Dankovičová\|1999\|p=72}}{{sfnp\|Šimáčková\|Podlipský\|Chládková\|2012\|p=228}}	{{lang\|cs\|bílý}}	{{Audio-IPA\|Cs-bílý.ogg\|[ˈbiːliː]\|help=no}}	'white'	See Czech phonology
colspan="2" \| Dutch{{sfnp\|Gussenhoven\|1992\|p=47}}{{sfnp\|Verhoeven\|2005\|p=245}}	{{lang\|nl\|biet}}	{{Audio-IPA\|Nl-biet.ogg\|[bit]\|help=no}}	'beet'	See Dutch phonology
rowspan="2" \| English{{sfnp\|Roach\|2004\|p=240}}	Most dialects	free	{{Audio-IPA\|En-us-free.ogg\|[fɹ̠iː]\|help=no}}	'free'	Depending on dialect, can be pronounced as {{IPA\|[ɪi]}}. See English phonology
Australian{{sfnp\|Cox\|Palethorpe\|2007\|p=344}}	bit	{{IPA\|[bit]}}	'bit'	Also described as near-close front {{IPAblink\|ɪ\|ɪ̟}}.{{sfnp\|Cox\|Fletcher\|2017\|p=65}} See Australian English phonology
colspan="2" \| French{{sfnp\|Fougeron\|Smith\|1993\|p=73}}{{sfnp\|Collins\|Mees\|2013\|p=225}}	{{lang\|fr\|fini}}	{{IPA\|[fini]}}	'finished'	See French phonology
colspan="2" \| German{{sfnp\|Hall\|2003\|pp=78, 107}}{{sfnp\|Dudenredaktion\|Kleiner\|Knöbl\|2015\|p=34}}	{{lang\|de\|Ziel}}	{{Audio-IPA\|De-Ziel.ogg\|[t͡siːl]\|help=no}}	'goal'	See Standard German phonology
Greek	Modern Standard{{sfnp\|Arvaniti\|2007\|p=28}}{{sfnp\|Trudgill\|2009\|p=81}}	{{lang\|el\|κήπος}} / kípos	{{IPA\|[ˈc̠i.po̞s̠]}}	'garden'	See Modern Greek phonology
Hebrew{{Citation needed\|date=July 2022}}	Modern Standard	{{lang\|he\|חשיבה}}	{{IPA\|[χäʃivä]}}	'thinking'	See Modern Hebrew phonology
colspan="2" \| Hungarian{{sfnp\|Szende\|1994\|p=92}}	{{lang\|hu\|ív}}	{{IPA\|[iːv]}}	'arch'	See Hungarian phonology
colspan="2" \| Italian{{sfnp\|Rogers\|d'Arcangeli\|2004\|p=119}}	{{lang\|it\|bile}}	{{IPA\|[ˈbiːle̞]}}	'rage'	See Italian phonology
colspan="2" \| Japanese{{sfnp\|Okada\|1999\|p=117}}	{{lang\|ja\|銀}}/{{lang\|ja-Latn\|gin}}	{{Audio-IPA\|ja-gin.ogg\|[ɡʲiɴ]\|help=no}}	'silver'	See Japanese phonology
colspan="2" \| Khmer	{{lang\|km\|លទ្ធិ}} / {{Transliteration\|km\|lôtthĭ}}	{{IPA\|[lattʰiʔ]}}	'doctrine'	See Khmer phonology
colspan="2" \| Korean{{sfnp\|Lee\|1999\|p=121}}	{{lang\|ko\|아이}} / {{lang\|ko-Latn\|ai}}	{{IPA\|[ɐi]}}	'child'	See Korean phonology
rowspan="3" \|Kurdish{{sfnp\|Thackston\|2006a\|p=1}}{{sfnp\|Khan\|Lescot\|1970\|pp=8-16}} \|Kurmanji (Northern) \|{{lang\|ku\|şîr}} \| rowspan="3" \|{{IPA\|[ʃiːɾ]}} \| rowspan="3" \|'milk' \| rowspan="3" \|See Kurdish phonology
Sorani (Central) \| rowspan="2" \|{{lang\|ku\|شیر}}/şîr
Palewani (Southern)
colspan="2" \| Lithuanian	{{lang\|lt\|vyras}}	{{IPA\|[viːrɐs̪]}}	'man'	See Lithuanian orthography
Malay \|Malaysian Malay \|ikut \|[i.kʊt] \|'to follow' \|See Malay phonology
colspan="2" \| Malayalam \|ഇല \|{{IPA\|[ilɐ]}} \|'leaf' \|See Malayalam phonology
colspan="2" \| Mpade{{sfnp\|Allison\|2006}}	{{lang\|mpi\|fli}}	{{IPA\|[fli]}}	'monkey'
colspan="2" \| Polish{{sfnp\|Jassem\|2003\|p=105}}	{{lang\|pl\|miś}}	{{Audio-IPA\|Pl-miś-2.ogg\|[ˈmʲiɕ]\|help=no}}	'teddy bear'	See Polish phonology
colspan="2" \| Portuguese{{sfnp\|Cruz-Ferreira\|1995\|p=92}}	{{lang\|pt\|fino}}	{{Audio-IPA\|Fino_european_pt.wav\|[ˈfinu]}}	'thin'	Also occurs as an unstressed allophone of other vowels. May be represented by {{angle bracket\|y}}. See Portuguese phonology
colspan="2" \| Romanian{{sfnp\|Sarlin\|2014\|p=18}}	{{lang\|ro\|insulă}}	{{IPA\|[ˈin̪s̪ulə]}}	'island'	See Romanian phonology
colspan="2" \| Rungus{{cite book \|last=Forschner \|first=T. A. \|date=December 1994 \|title=Outline of A Momogun Grammar (Rungus Dialect) \|url=http://www.ebfo.de/rungus/Rungus-Grammar_A4.pdf \|url-status=live \|location=Kudat \|page=6 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215060059/http://www.ebfo.de/rungus/Rungus-Grammar_A4.pdf \|archive-date=15 February 2020}}	{{lang\|drg\|rikot}}	{{IPA\|[ˈri.kot]}}	'to come'
colspan="2" \| Russian{{sfnp\|Jones\|Ward\|1969\|p=30}}	{{lang\|ru\|лист}}/list	{{Audio-IPA\|Ru-лист.ogg\|[lʲis̪t̪]\|help=no}}	'leaf'	Only occurs word-initially or after palatalized consonants. See Russian phonology
colspan="2" \| Serbo-Croatian{{sfnp\|Landau\|Lončarića\|Horga\|Škarić\|1999\|p=67}}	{{lang\|sh-Cyrl\|виле}} / {{lang\|sh-Latn\|vile}}	{{IPA\|[ʋîle̞]}}	'hayfork'	See Serbo-Croatian phonology
colspan="2" \| Spanish{{sfnp\|Martínez-Celdrán\|Fernández-Planas\|Carrera-Sabaté\|2003\|p=256}}	{{lang\|es\|tipo}}	{{IPA\|[ˈt̪ipo̞]}}	'type'	May also be represented by {{angle bracket\|y}}. See Spanish phonology
colspan="2" \| Sotho{{sfnp\|Doke\|Mofokeng\|1974\|p=?}}	{{lang\|st\|ho bitsa}}	{{IPA\|[huˌbit͡sʼɑ̈]}}	'to call'	Contrasts close, near-close and close-mid front unrounded vowels.{{sfnp\|Doke\|Mofokeng\|1974\|p=?}} See Sotho phonology
Swedish	Central Standard{{sfnp\|Engstrand\|1999\|p=140}}{{sfnp\|Riad\|2014\|p=21}}	{{lang\|sv\|bli}}	{{IPA\|[bliː]}}	'to become'	Often realized as a sequence {{IPA\|[ij]}} or {{IPA\|[iʝ]}} (hear the word: {{Audio-IPA\|sv-bli.ogg\|[blij]\|help=no}}); it may also be fricated {{IPA\|[iᶻː]}} or, in some regions, fricated and centralized ({{IPAblink\|ɨ\|ɨᶻː}}).{{sfnp\|Riad\|2014\|p=21}}{{sfnp\|Engstrand\|1999\|p=141}} See Swedish phonology
colspan="2" \| Tagalog	{{lang\|tl\|ibon}}	{{IPA\|[ˈʔibɔn]}}	'bird'
colspan="2" \| Thai{{sfnp\|Tingsabadh\|Abramson\|1993\|p=24}}	{{lang\|th\|กริช}}/krit	{{IPA\|[krìt]}}	'dagger'
colspan="2" \| Turkish{{sfnp\|Zimmer\|Orgun\|1999\|p=155}}{{sfnp\|Göksel\|Kerslake\|2005\|p=10}}	{{lang\|tr\|ip}}	{{IPA\|[ip]}}	'rope'	See Turkish phonology
colspan="2" \| Ukrainian{{sfnp\|Danyenko\|Vakulenko\|1995\|p=4}}	{{lang\|uk\|місто}}/misto	{{IPA\|['misto]}}	'city, town'	See Ukrainian phonology
colspan="2" \|Welsh \|es i \|[eːs iː] \|'I went' \|See Welsh phonology
colspan="2" \| Yoruba{{sfnp\|Bamgboṣe\|1966\|p=166}}	{{lang\|yo\|síbí}}	{{IPA\|[síbí]}}	'spoon'