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Open-mid vowel

Type of vowel sound

Summary

Type of vowel sound

An open-mid vowel (also mid-open vowel, low-mid vowel, mid-low vowel or half-open vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of an open-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned approximately one third of the way from an open vowel to a close vowel.

Examples

Some of the open-mid vowels that have dedicated symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

open-mid front unrounded vowel
open-mid front rounded vowel
open-mid central unrounded vowel (older publications may use )
open-mid central rounded vowel (older publications may use )
open-mid back unrounded vowel
open-mid back rounded vowel

Other open-mid vowels can be indicated with diacritics of relative articulation applied to letters for neighboring vowels.

References

Ogbonna, Elisha O.. (2022). "Advanced Igbo Language: A Simplified Guide to Igbo Orthography Phonology, Morphology and Lexicology". Prinoelio Press.
Wayland, Ratree. (2018). "Phonetics: A Practical Introduction". Cambridge University Press.

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