Open-mid front unrounded vowel
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Template:CSS IPA vowel chart
Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.
represents a rounded vowel.
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 Template:IPA, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is E.
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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.
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Occurs in
- Dutch: bed Template:IPA, 'bed'
- English: (GA) bed Template:IPA; (NZE) fat Template:IPA
- Faroese: elska Template:IPA, 'love'
- French: bête Template:IPA, 'animal'
- German: Bett Template:IPA, 'bed'
- Hungarian: nem Template:IPA, 'no'
- Icelandic: ég Template:IPA, 'I'
- Portuguese: café Template:IPA, 'coffee'
- Polish: lek Template:IPA, 'medicine'
- Vietnamese: té Template:IPA, 'to fall'
- Yoruba: ẹsẹ̀ Template:IPA, 'leg/foot'de:Ungerundeter halboffener Vorderzungenvokal
fr:Voyelle moyenne inférieure antérieure non arrondie ko:전설 비원순 중저모음 ja:非円唇前舌半広母音