Sentence examples for vowel I from inspiring English sources

I was the sign both of the vowel i and the consonant j.

The high front vowel i of suffixes had the effect of fronting and raising preceding back vowels and, in particular, of converting an a sound into an e sound.

Portuguese possibly did not join in the diphthong-forming process at all, though, as in Occitan, Catalan, Sardinian, and some Italian dialects, the short e- and o- sounds may at one time have developed into diphthongs under the influence of a following high vowel (i or u), later to be reduced once more to a single vowel.

Some morphemes have two alternating forms, one with a vowel i to prevent consonant clusters, and one without.

Stressed open syllables with a short vowel (i.e. syllables consisting of a short vowel followed by a consonant and another vowel) had the vowel reduced to /ǝ/ and the stressed moved one syllable later in the word (usually to the last syllable of the word).

I'd Like to Buy a Vowel I'd like to one-up Parry by doing a full itinerary of vowels: from Å to E (a river in Scotland) to I (a town in Fujian, China) to Ø (an island in Denmark) to U (a municipality in Micronesia) and maybe sometimes Y (a commune in northern France).

When y and w occurred between consonants, they were replaced by the vowels i and u.

(The distinction is marked phonetically by putting two dots over the front vowels.) The unrounded front vowels, i and e, may occur with any of the other vowels.

Most languages have five vowels (i, e, a, o, u), which are further distinguished by different vowel lengths (long and short).

The vowel system of Standard Yiddish consists of the simple vowels i, e, a, o, and u and the diphthongs ej, aj, and oj.

The distinction between palatalized and nonpalatalized consonants has the same acoustic basis as the contrast of front and back vowels (i.e., palatalized consonants and front vowels share a heightened tonal quality).