I with bar (majuscule: Ɨ, minuscule: ɨ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from I or i with the addition of a bar.

Latin I with bar

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, ɨ is used to represent a close central unrounded vowel. In American linguistic tradition, it is used to represent the weak vowel heard in the second syllable of roses when distinct from Rosa's.[1] For related uses of the small capital barred i, see near-close central unrounded vowel.

The ISO 6438 (African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange) gives lowercase of Ɨ as ɪ, a small capital I, not ɨ.


Character information
Preview Ɨ ɨ
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH STROKE LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE LATIN SMALL CAPITAL LETTER I WITH STROKE MODIFIER LETTER SMALL I WITH STROKE MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I WITH STROKE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 407 U+0197 616 U+0268 7547 U+1D7B 7588 U+1DA4 7591 U+1DA7
UTF-8 198 151 C6 97 201 168 C9 A8 225 181 187 E1 B5 BB 225 182 164 E1 B6 A4 225 182 167 E1 B6 A7
Numeric character reference Ɨ Ɨ ɨ ɨ ᵻ ᵻ ᶤ ᶤ ᶧ ᶧ

Variations

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Ɨ̆ ɨ̆
Ɨ̆ ɨ̆
Ɨ́ ɨ́
Ɨ́ ɨ́

ɨ̆, small barred i written with a breve, represents a very short close central unrounded vowel. The breve indicates a very short, or overshort vowel.

In the Golin language, ɨ̆ is used in the IPA transcription of the very short high central epenthetic vowel phone, which is restricted to syllables closing with a sonorant.

In the Malayalam language, '' is a symbol used to represent the IPA for ɨ̆.

Barred i is found written with an acute accent (majuscule: Ɨ́, minuscule: ɨ́) in the orthographies of several languages: Cora, Kenyang, Mfumte, etc. Depending on the language, the accent diacritic serves either to indicate the location of a word's primary stress or to mark rising tone.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Flemming, E., Johnson, S. (2007), "Rosa’s roses: reduced vowels in American English", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 37/1, pp. 83–96.