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Close Central Unrounded Vowel IPA - Unicode> | align="center" style="font-size: 24px"| | | IPA - image | align="center"| | | X-SAMPA | align="center"|1 | | Kirshenbaum | align="center"|i" | | colspan="2"|Sound sample | The close central 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 , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 1. The IPA symbol is the letter i with a horizontal bar. Both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as "barred-i". Features of this vowel: The is the sound of the Korean "ㅡ" (으, romanized as "eu" or "ŭ"), the Romanian "" and "", the Russian "ы", and the Turkish "ı". In English, it is the sound of the 'e' in roses in those dialects that distinguish the words "Rosa's" and "roses".
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