Close front unrounded vowel

The close front unrounded vowel(also called high front unrounded vowel), is a type of vowel. It is an i in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It sounds like the English word meet. It is also called a long-e in American English.  In English this sound has more length then it should and is not usually pronounced as a pure vowel(it is a diphthong). A pure  sound can be heard in languages such as French with words like chic.

 In languages 
LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotesAfrikaans'thief'See Afrikaans phonologyArabicStandard/diin'religion'See Arabic phonologyCatalan'sic'See Catalan phonologyChineseMandarin / 'seven'See Standard Chinese phonologyChuvashçип[ɕ̬ip]'thread'Czech'white'See Czech phonologyDutch'beet'See Dutch phonologyEnglishAll dialectsfree'free'In certain dialects, it can be pronunced as a diphthong. See English phonologyAustralianbit'bit'Also described as near-close front . See Australian English phonologyFrench'finished'See French phonologyGerman'goal'See Standard German phonologyGreekModern Standard / kípos'garden'See Modern Greek phonologyHungarian'arch'See Hungarian phonologyItalian'rage'See Italian phonologyJapanese/'silver'See Japanese phonologyKhmer / 'doctrine'See Khmer phonologyKorean / 'child'See Korean phonologyKurdishKurmanji (Northern)'milk'See Kurdish phonologySorani (Central)/šîrPalewani (Southern)Lithuanian'man'See Lithuanian orthographyMalayMalaysian Malayikut[i.kʊt]'to follow'See Malay phonologyPolish'teddy bear'See Polish phonologyPortuguese'thin'Also occurs as an unstressed allophone of other vowels. May be represented by . See Portuguese phonologyRomanian'island'See Romanian phonologyRungus'to come'Russian/list'leaf'Will only be used after palatalized consonants. See Russian phonologySerbo-Croatian'hayfork'See Serbo-Croatian phonologySpanish'type'Can be written by . See Spanish phonologySotho'to call'Contrasts close, near-close and close-mid front unrounded vowels. See Sotho phonologySwedishCentral Standard'to stay'See Swedish phonologyThai/krit'dagger'Turkish'rope'See Turkish phonologyUkrainian/misto'city, town'See Ukrainian phonologyWelshes i[eːs iː]'I went'See Welsh phonologyYoruba'spoon'

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Category:Vowels