Ndebe · Ńdébé
i
The vowel i on its own — a syllable of the Ndebe syllabary with no consonant body, which the script writes with its own character rather than as a body with the consonant left off.
The three tones
Tone is part of the character in Ndebe, not a mark added to it, so one syllable is written three different ways. These are the same shape family — the character on the left in each box is the one to learn first, and it is the form the chart shows.
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high tone
i
U+E262
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mid tone
i
U+E263
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low tone
i
U+E264
Words that use it
Sixty of the Igbo entries here carry this syllable, shortest first. The Ndebe spelling is written under each word, and the syllable you are looking for is in it.