Close-mid central unrounded vowel

Vowels

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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>
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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.

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.

Occurs in

• English: some varieties of Southern American English nut [nɘt]^[1]
• Paicĩ: [kɘ̄ɾɘ̄] "spider"
• Russian: for some speakers after /ʦ/ солнце [ˈsonʦɘ], "sun"

References

1. ^ Roca, Iggy & Johnson, Wyn (1999). Course in Phonology. Blackwell Publishing.

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.

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