Unrounded, centralized, almost closed front tongue vowel

IPA mark	ɪ
IPA number	319
IPA character description	Latin small caps i
Unicode	U + 026A
HTML (dec.)	& # 618;
X-SAMPA	I
Kirshenbaum	I
Audio sample ? / i [ ʔɪː ]

Phonetic and orthographic realization of the unrounded centralized almost closed front tongue vowel in different languages:

• German [ɪ]: short i
  • Example: M i tte [ ˈmɪtɘ ]
• Dutch [ɪ]: i
  • Example: i k [ ɪk ]

In German, in addition to [ɪ], this also occurs [i] ( unrounded closed front tongue vowel ).

See also

• vocal
• Front tongue vowel
• Rounding (phonetics)