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close-mid vowel
See also: IPA, Consonants
Where symbols appear in pairs,
the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.
represents a rounded vowel.
A close-mid vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a close-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned two-thirds of the way from a close vowel to a mid vowel. The close-mid vowels identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:
- close-mid front unrounded vowel [e]
- close-mid front rounded vowel [ø]
- close-mid central unrounded vowel [ɘ]
- close-mid central rounded vowel [ɵ]
- close-mid back unrounded vowel [ɤ]
- close-mid back rounded vowel [o]
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