Ɨ

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

Ɨ ɨ
Ɨ ɨ
I with bar in Doulos SIL
Not to be confused with ł (L with stroke) or ƚ (L 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.

CharacterƗɨᵻ
Unicode nameLATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH STROKELATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKELATIN SMALL CAPITAL LETTER I WITH STROKE
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode407U+0197616U+02687547U+1D7B
UTF-8198 151C6 97201 168C9 A8225 181 187E1 B5 BB
Numeric character referenceƗƗɨɨᵻᵻ

Variations
Ɨ̆ ɨ̆
Ɨ̆ ɨ̆
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.

Barred i is found written with an acute accent (majuscule: Ɨ́, minuscule: ɨ́) in the orthographies of several languages, including Bangolan, Bora, Chiquitano, Cora, Guarayo, Witoto, Inapari, Kenyang, Nzime, Kwanja, Mpade, Mfumte, Noni, and Orejón. 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

References
  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.
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