Open-mid vowel

Vowels

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See also: IPA, Consonants

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

The open-mid vowels make a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of an open-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned two-thirds of the way from an open vowel to a mid vowel. The open-mid vowels identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

• open-mid front unrounded vowel [ɛ]
• open-mid front rounded vowel [œ]
• open-mid central unrounded vowel [ɜ]
• open-mid central rounded vowel [ɞ]
• open-mid back unrounded vowel [ʌ]
• open-mid back rounded vowel [ɔ]