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{{short description|Letter of the Latin alphabet}}
{{Distinguish|text=[[ł]] (L with stroke) or [[L with bar|ƚ]] (L with bar)}}
{{redirect|ɨ|the sound represented by ɨ in the IPA|Close central unrounded vowel}}
[[File:Latin letter I with stroke.svg|thumb|Latin I with bar]]
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'''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 (diacritic)|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'' [[weak vowel merger|when distinct from ''Rosa's'']].<ref>Flemming, E., Johnson, S. (2007), "''Rosa’s roses'': reduced vowels in American English", ''Journal of the International Phonetic Association'' 37/1, pp. 83–96.</ref> 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.

==Unicode==
* {{unichar| 0197}}
* {{unichar| 0268 }}
* {{unichar| 1D7B }}
* {{unichar| 1DA4 }}
* {{unichar| 1DA7 }}

==Variations==
{| align="right" cellpadding="4" style="border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; padding: 10px; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 36pt; text-align: center;"
| <span style="font-family: sans-serif" title="sans-serif style">Ɨ̆ ɨ̆</span>
|-
| <span style="font-family: serif" title="serif style">Ɨ̆ ɨ̆</span>
|-
| <span style="font-family: sans-serif" title="sans-serif style">Ɨ́ ɨ́</span>
|-
| <span style="font-family: serif" title="serif style">Ɨ́ ɨ́</span>
|}

[[ɨ̆]], small barred i written with a [[breve]], represents a [[Vowel length|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 (phonetics)|phone]], which is restricted to syllables closing with a [[sonorant]].

In the [[Malayalam|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 language|Cora]], [[Kenyang language|Kenyang]], [[Mfumte language|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.

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==See also==
* {{unichar|026B |nlink=}}
*[[L with stroke]] (Ł, ł)
*[[D with stroke]] (Đ, đ)
*[[U with bar]] (Ʉ, ʉ)
*[[T with stroke]] (Ŧ, ŧ)
*[[Yery]] (Ы, ы)

==References==
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{{Latin script|I|bar}}

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[[Category:Latin letters with diacritics]]
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