Close-mid front unrounded vowel
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| Vowels | |||||
| front | near-front | central | near-back | back | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| close | [[close front unrounded vowel | ]] • [[close front rounded vowel | ]] | [[close central unrounded vowel | ]] • [[close central rounded vowel | ]] | [[close back unrounded vowel | ]] • [[close back rounded vowel | ]] | ||
| near-close | [[near-close near-front unrounded vowel | ]] • [[near-close near-front rounded vowel | ]] | [[near-close near-back rounded vowel | ]] | |||
| close-mid | [[close-mid front unrounded vowel | ]] • [[close-mid front rounded vowel | ]] | [[close-mid central unrounded vowel | ]] • [[close-mid central rounded vowel | ]] | [[close-mid back unrounded vowel | ]] • [[close-mid back rounded vowel | ]] | ||
| mid | [[schwa | ]] | ||||
| open-mid | [[open-mid front unrounded vowel | ]] • [[open-mid front rounded vowel | ]] | [[open-mid central unrounded vowel | ]] • [[open-mid central rounded vowel | ]] | [[open-mid back unrounded vowel | ]] • [[open-mid back rounded vowel | ]] | ||
| near-open | [[near-open front unrounded vowel | ]] | [[near-open central vowel | ]] | |||
| open | [[open front unrounded vowel | ]] • [[open front rounded vowel | ]] | [[open back unrounded vowel | ]] • [[open back rounded vowel | ]] | |||
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The close-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 close-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between close 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
- English: (AuE) bet Template:IPA and hair Template:IPA; (NZE) bet Template:IPA
- In RP and GA, this vowel occurs only as the first part of the diphthong Template:IPA, as in late Template:IPA, play Template:IPA.
- In Canadian English, this vowel may occur alone in words like bait during rapid speech.
- French: beauté Template:IPA, 'beauty'
- German: Seele Template:IPA, 'soul'
- Hungarian: hét Template:IPA, 'week, seven'
- Spanish: bebé Template:IPA, 'baby'ko:전설 비원순 중고모음
