Close-mid central unrounded vowel
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| Edit - 2× | Front | N.-front | Central | N.-back | Back |
| Close | |||||
| Near-close | |||||
| Close-mid | |||||
| Mid | |||||
| Open-mid | |||||
| Near-open | |||||
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Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.
represents a rounded vowel.
| IPA – number | 397 |
| IPA – text | ɘ |
| IPA – image | 
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| Entity | ɘ |
| X-SAMPA | @\ |
| Kirshenbaum | @<umd> |
| Sound sample | |
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[edit] Close-mid central unrounded vowel
The close-mid central unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɘ. This is a reversed letter e, and should not be confused with the schwa ə, a turned letter e.
[edit] Features
- Its vowel height is close-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between close vowel and a mid vowel.
- Its vowel backness is central, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.
- Its vowel roundedness is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded.
[edit] Occurs in
- English: some varieties of Southern American English nut [nɘt]<ref>Roca, Iggy & Johnson, Wyn (1999). Course in Phonology. Blackwell Publishing.</ref>
- Paicĩ: [kɘ̄ɾɘ̄] "spider"
- Russian: for some speakers after /ʦ/ солнце [ˈsonʦɘ], "sun"
[edit] References
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[edit] See also
- The symbol for the close-mid central unrounded vowel may also be used with a lowering diacritic [ɘ̞], to denote the mid central unrounded vowel.de:Ungerundeter halbgeschlossener Zentralvokal
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