Close-mid vowel

IPA: Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i y	ɨ ʉ	ɯ u
Near-close	ɪ ʏ		ʊ
Close-mid	e ø	ɘ ɵ	ɤ o
Mid	e̞ ø̞	ə	ɤ̞ o̞
Open-mid	ɛ œ	ɜ ɞ	ʌ ɔ
Near-open	æ	ɐ
Open	a ɶ	ä	ɑ ɒ

Vowels beside dots are: unrounded • rounded

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A close-mid vowel (also known as mid-close vowel, high-mid vowel, mid-high vowel, or half-close vowel) is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages. The tongue is placed about one-third from a close vowel to an open vowel for a close-mid vowel.^[1]

List

The close-mid vowels that have symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

close-mid front unrounded vowel [e]
close-mid front rounded vowel [ø]
close-mid central unrounded vowel [ɘ] (older publications may use ⟨ë⟩)
close-mid central rounded vowel [ɵ] (older publications may use ⟨ö⟩)
close-mid back unrounded vowel [ɤ]
close-mid back rounded vowel [o]

References

↑ Tamzida, Aleeya; Siddiqui, Sharmin (2013-02-22). "A synchronic comparison between the vowel phonemes of Bengali & English phonology and its classroom applicability". Stamford Journal of English. 6: 285–314. doi:10.3329/sje.v6i0.13919. ISSN 2408-8838.

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[1] Tamzida, Aleeya; Siddiqui, Sharmin (2013-02-22). "A synchronic comparison between the vowel phonemes of Bengali & English phonology and its classroom applicability". Stamford Journal of English. 6: 285–314. doi:10.3329/sje.v6i0.13919. ISSN 2408-8838.

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