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Open-mid vowel

The open-mid vowels make a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of an open-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned halfway between an open vowel and a mid vowel. The open-mid vowels identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

• open-mid front unrounded vowel [ɛ]
• open-mid front rounded vowel [œ]
• open-mid central unrounded vowel [ɜ]
• open-mid central rounded vowel [ɞ]
• open-mid back unrounded vowel [ʌ]
• open-mid back rounded vowel [ɔ]

See also

• list of vowels
• table of vowels
• open vowel
• near-open vowel
• mid vowel
• close-mid vowel
• near-close vowel
• close vowel
• list of phonetics topics

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