Close-mid central unrounded vowel

Vowels

v • d • e

See also: IPA, Consonants

[ edit • discuss • enlarge ]	Front	Near- front	Central	Near- back	Back
Close	i · y ɨ · ʉ ɯ · u ɪ · ʏ ʊ e · ø ɘ · ɵ ɤ · o ə ɛ · œ ɜ · ɞ ʌ · ɔ æ ɐ a · ɶ ɑ · ɒ
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open

Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.

IPA – number	397
IPA – text	ɘ
IPA – image
Entity	ɘ
X-SAMPA	@\
Kirshenbaum	@<umd>
Sound sample (help·info)

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. This symbol may be used with a lowering diacritic [ɘ̞], to denote the mid central unrounded vowel.

[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] Occurrence

[edit] References

[edit] Bibliography

• Jones, Daniel & Ward Dennis (1969), The Phonetics of Russian, Cambridge University Press
• Roca, Iggy & Wyn Johnson (1999), A Course in Phonology, Blackwell Publishing