I with bar (majuscule:Ɨ,minuscule:ɨ) is a letter of theLatin alphabet, formed fromI ori with the addition of abar.
In theInternational Phonetic Alphabet, ɨ is used to represent aclose central unrounded vowel. In American linguistic tradition, it is used to represent the weak vowel heard in the second syllable ofroseswhen distinct fromRosa's.[1] For related uses of the small capital barred i, seenear-close central unrounded vowel.
TheISO 6438 (African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange) gives lowercase of Ɨ asɪ, a small capital I, not ɨ.
| Ɨ̆ ɨ̆ |
| Ɨ̆ ɨ̆ |
| Ɨ́ ɨ́ |
| Ɨ́ ɨ́ |
ɨ̆, small barred i written with abreve, represents avery short close central unrounded vowel. The breve indicates avery short, orovershort vowel.
In theGolin language, ɨ̆ is used in the IPA transcription of the very short high centralepenthetic vowelphone, which is restricted to syllables closing with asonorant.
In theMalayalam language, '്' is a symbol used to represent the IPA for ɨ̆.
Barred i is found written with anacute 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.