  the near-close near-front unrounded vowel, or near-high near-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.e. a small capital letter i. the ipa prefers the terms "close" and "open" for classifying vowels. some linguists use the terms "high" and "low," respectively, instead of "close" and "open." == features ==      == occurrence == in the following transcriptions, a fully front vowel is represented by the "advanced" diacritic . {| class="wikitable" ! colspan="2" |language !! word !! ipa!! meaning !! notes |- | colspan="2" | assyrian neo-aramaic||  || ]|| 'winter'|| used mostly in the tyari dialects.  is used predominantly in other dialects. |- | rowspan="2" | chinese|| yue||   ||  || 'ice' || see cantonese phonology |- | wu ||   ||  || 'one'|| |- | colspan="2" | czech ||  ||  || 'they were' || see czech phonology |- | danish || standard ||  ||  || 'whole' || fully front; often transcribed . see danish phonology |- | rowspan="2" | dutch || rotterdam || rowspan="2" |  || rowspan="2" |  || rowspan="2" | 'bit' || rowspan="2" | somewhat fronted; corresponds to  in standard dutch. see dutch phonology |- | the hague |- | rowspan="4" | english || most dialects || rowspan="2" |  ||  || rowspan="2" | 'bit' || see english phonology |- | australian{{cite web|author=robert mannell and fe
Vowels