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The near-close central unrounded vowel, or near-high central unrounded vowel, is a vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The International Phonetic Alphabet can represent this sound in a number of ways (see the box on the right), but the most common symbols are ⟨ɪ̈⟩ (centralized [ɪ]) and ⟨ɨ̞⟩ (lowered [ɨ]). In many British dictionaries, this vowel has been transcribed ⟨ɪ⟩, which captures its height; in the American tradition it is more often ⟨ɨ⟩, which captures its centrality, or ⟨ᵻ⟩,[1] which captures both. The third edition of the OED adopted ⟨ᵻ⟩ as a conflation of ⟨ɪ⟩ and ⟨ɨ⟩ to represent either [ɪ̈] or a vowel that varies between [ɪ] and [ə].
The IPA prefers terms "close" and "open" for vowels, and the name of the article follows this. However, a large number of linguists, perhaps a majority in the USA, prefer the terms "high" and "low".
Place of articulation, Back vowel, International Phonetic Alphabet, Close-mid vowel, Manner of articulation
Language, Front vowel, Back vowel, International Phonetic Alphabet, Close-mid vowel
Front vowel, International Phonetic Alphabet, Close-mid vowel, Place of articulation, Manner of articulation
South Africa, Namibia, South African English, Botswana, West Germanic languages
International Phonetic Alphabet, Place of articulation, Manner of articulation, Front vowel, Near-front vowel
International Phonetic Alphabet, Place of articulation, Manner of articulation, ɾ̼, Front vowel
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Afrikaans, Languages of South Africa, Sotho language
Iraq, Persian language, Iranian languages, Iraqi Kurdistan, Indo-European languages