Close central unrounded vowel
| Close central unrounded vowel | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ɨ | |||
| ï | |||
| ɯ̈ | |||
| IPA Number | 317 | ||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ɨ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0268 | ||
| X-SAMPA | 1 | ||
| Braille |   | ||
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The close central unrounded vowel, or high central unrounded vowel,[1] is a type of vowel sound used in some languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɨ, namely the lower-case letter i with a horizontal bar. Both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as barred i.
Occasionally, this vowel is transcribed ⟨ï⟩ (centralized ⟨i⟩) or ⟨ɯ̈⟩ (centralized ⟨ɯ⟩).[2]
The close central unrounded vowel is the vocalic equivalent of the rare post-palatal approximant [j̈].[3]
Features
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- Its vowel height is close, 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.
- Its vowel backness is central, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.
- It is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded.
Occurrence
/ɨ/ is uncommon as a phoneme in Indo-European languages, occurring most commonly as an allophone in some Slavic languages. However, it is very common as a separate phoneme in the indigenous languages of the Americas and is often in phonemic contrast with other close vowels such as /i/ and /u/ both in modern living languages as well as reconstructed proto-languages (such as Proto-Uto-Aztecan). Campbell, Kaufman & Smith-Stark (1986) identify the presence of this vowel phoneme as an areal feature of a Mesoamerican Sprachbund (although that is not a defining feature of the entire area).
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acehnese | tupeue | [tupɨə] | 'to know' | Asyik[4] and Al-Ahmadi Al-Harbi[5] describe this sound as such while Durie[6] describes it as closer to [ɯ] | |
| Angami | Khonoma[7] | prü | [pɻɨ²] | 'hail stone' | The height varies between close [ɨ] and mid [ə].[7] Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ə⟩. |
| Arhuaco | ikʉ | ɪk'ɨ | 'arhuaco language' | ||
| Mandarin[8][better source needed] | chī (吃) | [tʂʰɨ˥] | 'to eat' | ||
| English | Southeastern English[9] | rude | [ɹɨːd] | 'rude' | May be rounded [ʉː], or a diphthong [ʊʉ̯~əʉ̯] instead. |
| Guaraní[10] | yvy | [ɨʋɨ] | 'earth' | ||
| Hausa[11] | [example needed] | Allophone of /i/.[11] | |||
| Irish | Munster[12] | caora | [kɨ̟ːɾˠə] | 'sheep' | Somewhat fronted; allophone of /i/ between broad consonants.[12] See Irish phonology |
| Kalagan[13] | [pɨˈnɨt̪] | 'beard' | |||
| Kashmiri[14] | teer | [ˈt̪ɨːr] | 'cold' | ||
| Kera[15] | [ɡɨ̀ɡɨ̀r] | 'knee' | |||
| Latgalian[16] | dyžan | [ˈd̪ɨʒän̪] | 'very much' | See Latgalian phonology | |
| Mongolian[17] | хүчир | [xutʃʰɨɾɘ̆] | 'difficult' | ||
| Mono[18] | dɨ | [dɨ] | 'count' | ||
| Paicî[19] | [example needed] | May be transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɯ⟩. | |||
| Romanian[20] | înot | [ɨˈn̪o̞t̪] | 'I swim' | See Romanian phonology | |
| Russian[21] | ты | 'you' (singular) | Occurs only after unpalatalized consonants. See Russian phonology | ||
| Sahaptin[22] | [kʼsɨt] | 'cold' | Epenthetic. No lengthened equivalent | ||
| Sema[23] | sü | [ʃɨ̀] | 'to hurt' | Also described as near-close [ɨ̞].[24] | |
| Shipibo[25] | tenaitianronki | [ˈt̪ɨnɐi̞ti̞ɐ̃ɽõ̞ɣi̞] | [translation needed] | Possible realization of /ɯ/ after coronal consonants.[25] | |
| Sirionó[26] | [eˈsɨ] | 'dry wood' | |||
| Swedish | Bohuslän[27] | bli | [blɨᶻː] | 'to stay' | A fricated vowel that corresponds to [iː] in Central Standard Swedish.[27] See Swedish phonology |
| Närke[27] | |||||
| Tajik | Bukharan[28] | ғижғиж | [ʁɨʑʁɨʑ] | 'the sound of wood sawing' |
Allophone of /i/ in the environment of uvular consonants.[28] |
| Tamil[29] | வால் | [väːlɨ] | 'tail' | Epenthetic vowel inserted in colloquial speech after word-final liquids; can be rounded [ʉ] instead.[29] See Tamil phonology | |
| Tera[30] | zu | [zɨ] | 'said' | ||
| Turkish | Eastern Anatolia | [example needed] | Corresponds to /ɯ/ in standard Turkish. | ||
| Balkans[31] | [example needed] | Word-final merger of standard Turkish sounds /i/ and /ɯ/, shift of /y/ and /u/ into single phoneme due to interactions caused by Balkan sprachbund. Dombrowski[31] transcribes this phoneme as /i/. | |||
| Udmurt[32] | ургетэ, ыргетэ[33] | [ɨrgete] | 'it growls' | ||
| Welsh | Northern dialects[34] | llun | [ɬɨːn] | 'picture' | See Welsh phonology |
| Zapotec | Tilquiapan[35] | nɨ | [nɨ] | 'be sour' | |
The sound of Polish ⟨y⟩ is often represented as /ɨ/, but actually it is a close-mid advanced central unrounded vowel, more narrowly transcribed [ɘ̟].[36] Similarly, European Portuguese unstressed ⟨e⟩, often represented as /ɨ/, is actually a near-close near-back unrounded vowel,[37] more narrowly transcribed using ad hoc symbols such as [ɯ̽] (mid-centralized), [ɯ̟] (fronted) and [ʊ̜] (less rounded i.e. unrounded)
See also
Notes
- ^ While the International Phonetic Association prefers the terms "close" and "open" for vowel height, many linguists use "high" and "low".
- ^ See e.g. Gimson (2014:133), who transcribes the unrounded central realization of the English GOOSE vowel /uː/ with the symbol [ɯ̈ː].
- ^ Instead of "post-palatal", it can be called "retracted palatal", "backed palatal", "palato-velar", "pre-velar", "advanced velar", "fronted velar" or "front-velar".
- ^ Asyik, Abdul Gani (1982), "The agreement system in Acehnese" (PDF), Mon-Khmer Studies, 11: 1–33, archived from the original (PDF) on 5 June 2013, retrieved 9 November 2012
{{citation}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Al-Ahmadi Al-Harbi, Awwad Ahmad (2003), "Acehnese coda condition: An optimality-theoretic account", Umm Al-Qura University Journal of Educational and Social Sciences and Humanities, 15: 9–21
- ^ Mid-vowels in Acehnese Archived 2010-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Blankenship et al. (1993), p. 129.
- ^ "Chinese Vowels".
- ^ Lodge (2009), p. 174.
- ^ "Phonological inventory of Paraguayan Guarani". South American Phonological Inventory Database. Berkeley: University of California. 2015.
- ^ a b Schuh & Yalwa (1999), p. 90.
- ^ a b Ó Sé (2000), p. ?.
- ^ Wendel & Wendel (1978), p. 198.
- ^ "Koshur: Spoken Kashmiri: A Language Course: Transcription". Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ^ Pearce (2011), p. 251.
- ^ Nau (2011), pp. 9–10.
- ^ Iivonen & Harnud (2005), pp. 62, 66–67.
- ^ Olson (2004), p. 235.
- ^ Gordon & Maddieson (1996), p. 118.
- ^ Sarlin (2014), p. 18.
- ^ Jones & Ward (1969), p. 33.
- ^ Hargus & Beavert (2002).
- ^ Teo (2014), p. 28.
- ^ Teo (2012), p. 368.
- ^ a b Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001), p. 283.
- ^ Firestone (1965), p. ?.
- ^ a b c Riad (2014), p. 21.
- ^ a b Ido (2014), p. 91.
- ^ a b Keane (2004), p. 114.
- ^ Tench (2007), p. 230.
- ^ a b Dombrowski, Andrew. "Vowel Harmony Loss in West Rumelian Turkish".
- ^ Iivonen & Harnud (2005), pp. 64, 68.
- ^ ургетыны [Udmurt-Russian dictionary] (in Russian)
- ^ Ball (1984), p. ?.
- ^ Merrill (2008), p. 109.
- ^ Jassem (2003), p. 105.
- ^ Cruz-Ferreira (1995), p. 91.
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