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Sounds for written letters



	1. a

	2. e

	3. i

	4. o

	5. u

	6. b and v

	7. ce, ci, z

	8. ca, co, cu, qu, k

	9. ch

	10. d

	11. f

	12. ga, go, gu

	13. j, ge, gi

	14. l

	15. ll

	16. m

	17. n

	18. ñ

	19. p

	20. r


	21. s

	22. t

	23. w

	24. x

	25. y

	26. h

Spanish letter i

This letter can exhibit two sounds: /j/ (Voiced Palatal Approximant) and /i/ (Front Close Vowel)
The palatal approximant can in many cases be considered the semivocalic equivalent of the close front unrounded vowel [i]. The two are almost identical featurally. They alternate with each other in certain languages.
And it occurs when the 'i' is not stressed and before or after 'a', 'e', 'o'; and before 'u'
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Sound 1: Voiced Palatal Approximant /j/
	/ko̞n̪.t̪äˈxjäɾ/ (to infect)			/bäjˈle̞/ (dance)
	/in.mo̞.βiˈljä.ɾjo̞/ (real estate)			/käˈɾi.sjä/ (caress)
	/se̞.kun̪ˈd̪ä.ɾjä/ (secondary education)			/ˈmje̞.ðo̞/ (fear)
	/äˈse̞j.t̪e̞/ (oil)			/bäˈljo̞.so̞/ (valuable)
	/sju.ðä.ðäˈniä/ (citizenship)			/ˈbju.ðo̞/ (widower)

The close front unrounded vowel, or high front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound that occurs in most spoken languages, represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet by the symbol i. It is similar to the vowel sound in the English word meet—and often called long-e in American English. Although in English this sound has additional length (usually being represented as /iː/) and is not normally pronounced as a pure vowel (it is a slight diphthong), some dialects have been reported to pronounce the phoneme as a pure sound. A pure [i] sound is also heard in many other languages, such as French, in words like chic.
The close front unrounded vowel is the vocalic equivalent of the palatal approximant [j]. The two are almost identical featurally. They alternate with each other in certain languages, such as French, and in the diphthongs of some languages, [i̯] with the non-syllabic diacritic and [j] are used in different transcription systems to represent the same sound.
Languages that use the Latin script commonly use the letter ⟨i⟩ to represent this sound, though there are some exceptions: in English orthography that letter is usually associated with /aɪ/ (as in bite) or /ɪ/ (as in bit), and /iː/ is more commonly represented by ⟨e⟩, ⟨ea⟩, ⟨ee⟩, ⟨ie⟩ or ⟨ei⟩, as in the words scene, bean, meet, niece, conceive; (see Great Vowel Shift). Irish orthography reflects both etymology and whether preceding consonants are broad or slender, so such combinations as ⟨aí⟩, ⟨ei⟩, and ⟨aío⟩ all represent /iː/.
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Sound 2: Close front unrounded vowel /i/
	/ˈko̞.ði.ɰo̞/ (code)			/ˈt̪ɾi.ɰo̞/ (wheat)
	/kä.miˈnä.t̪ä/ (hike)			/ʧiˈʧo̞n/ (bump)
	/ä.misˈt̪o̞.so̞/ (friendly)			/re̞ˈt̪i.ɾo̞/ (retirement)
	/kumˈpliɾ/ (to accomplish, to carry out)			/äˈli.βjo̞/ (relief)
	/biˈɰo̞.t̪e̞/ (mustache)			/imˈpäɾ/ (odd)