Open-mid front unrounded vowel
| Edit - 2× | Front | N.-front | Central | N.-back | Back |
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Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.
represents a rounded vowel.
| IPA – number | 303 |
| IPA – text | ɛ |
| IPA – image |  |
| Entity | ɛ |
| X-SAMPA | E |
| Kirshenbaum | E |
| Sound sample | |
|---|---|
The open-mid front 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 ɛ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is E.
Features
- Its vowel height is open-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between an open vowel and a mid vowel.
- Its vowel backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
- Its vowel roundedness is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded.
Occurs in
- Dutch: bed [bɛt], "bed"
- English: (GA) bed [bɛd]; (NZE) fat [fɛ̝t]
- Faroese: elska [ɛlska], "love"
- French: bête [bɛt], "animal"
- German: Bett [bɛt], "bed"
- Hungarian: nem [nɛm], "no"
- Icelandic: ég [jɛg], "I"
- Italian: sette ['sɛtte], "seven" and "sects"; cioè [tʃo'ɛ*], "namely, that is"
- Polish: lek [lɛk], "medicine"
- Portuguese: café [kɐfɛ], "coffee"
- Russian: это [ˈɛtə], "this"
- Scottish Gaelic: aig [ɛk], "at"
- Seri: me [mɛ], "you"
- Vietnamese: té [tɛ́], "to fall"
- Yoruba: ẹsẹ̀ [ɛ̄sɛ], "leg/foot"
Categories
Vowels