Open-mid front unrounded vowel

Open-mid front unrounded vowel
Open-mid front unrounded vowel
ɛ
IPA number 303
Encoding
Entity (decimal) ɛ
Unicode (hex) U+025B
X-SAMPA E
Kirshenbaum E
Sound

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The open-mid front unrounded vowel, or low-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 Latin epsilon ⟨ɛ⟩.

The IPA prefers terms "close" and "open" for vowels, and the name of the article follows this. However, a large number of linguists, perhaps a majority, prefer the terms "high" and "low", and these are the only terms found in introductory textbooks on phonetics such as those by Peter Ladefoged.

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Features

IPA vowel chart
Front Near-​front Central Near-​back Back
Close
Blank vowel trapezoid.svg
iy
ɨʉ
ɯu
ɪʏ
ʊ
eø
ɘɵ
ɤo
ɛœ
ɜɞ
ʌɔ
æ
aɶ
ä
ɑɒ
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open
Paired vowels are: unrounded • rounded
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  • Its vowel height is open-mid, also known as low-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between an open vowel (a low 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.

Occurrence

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Albanian tre [tɾɛ] 'three'
Catalan[1] mel [ˈmɛɫ] 'honey' See Catalan phonology
Chinese Cantonese /se4 [sɛː˩] 'snake' See Cantonese phonology
Mandarin /xié [ɕjɛ˧˥] 'tilted' See Mandarin phonology
Wu / ngae [ŋɛ˥˨] 'face'
Czech Amerika [amɛrɪka] 'America' See Czech phonology
Dutch bed [bɛt] 'bed' See Dutch phonology
English GA bed [bɛd] 'bed' See English phonology
New Zealand fat [fɛt] 'fat'
Faroese elska [ɛlska] 'love'
French[2] bête [bɛt] 'animal' See French phonology
Galician pé [pɛ] 'foot'
Georgian[3] გედი [ɡɛdi] 'swan'
German Bett [bɛt] 'bed' See German phonology
Hindi शहर [ʃɛɦɛr] 'city' See Hindi-Urdu phonology
Hungarian nem [nɛm] 'no' See Hungarian phonology
Icelandic ég [jɛɣ] 'I' See Icelandic phonology
Italian[4] bene [ˈbɛːne] 'good' See Italian phonology
Kabardian Iэ [ʔɛ] 'to tell'
Korean 태양 [tʰɛ.jaŋ] 'Sun' See Korean phonology
Lithuanian mane [mɐˈnɛ] 'me' (acc.)
Ngwe Njoagwi dialect [lɛ̀rɛ́] 'eye'
North Frisian tech [tɛx] 'closed'
Norwegian nett [nɛt] 'net' See Norwegian phonology
Polish[5] ten About this sound [tɛn] 'this one' See Polish phonology
Portuguese[6] café [kɐˈfɛ] 'coffee' See Portuguese phonology
Russian[7] это [ˈɛtə] 'this' See Russian phonology
Scottish Gaelic aig [ɛk] 'at' See Scottish Gaelic phonology
Serbo-Croatian mleko/млеко [mlɛːko] 'milk' See Serbo-Croatian phonology
Seri me [mɛ] 'you'
Slovak pes [pɛs] 'dog'
Swedish ät [ɛːt] 'eat' (imp.) See Swedish phonology
Ukrainian береза [bɛˈrɛzɑ] 'birch' See Ukrainian phonology
Urdu شہر [ʃɛɦɛr] 'city' See Hindi-Urdu phonology
Vietnamese e [ɛ] 'to fear' See Vietnamese phonology
West Frisian têd [tɛːt] 'languid'
Yoruba sẹ̀ [ɛ̄sɛ] 'leg'

See also

References

Bibliography

  • Carbonell, Joan F.; Llisterri, Joaquim (1992), "Catalan", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 22 (1-2): 53–56 
  • Cruz-Ferreira, Madalena (1995), "European Portuguese", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 25 (2): 90–94 
  • Fougeron, Cecile; Smith, Caroline L (1993), "Illustrations of the IPA:French", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 23 (2): 73–76 
  • Jones, Daniel; Dennis, Ward (1969), The Phonetics of Russian, Cambridge University Press 
  • Jassem, Wiktor (2003), "Polish", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 33 (1): 103–107 
  • Rogers, Derek; d'Arcangeli, Luciana (2004), "Italian", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 34 (1): 117–121 
  • Shosted, Ryan K.; Vakhtang, Chikovani (2006), "Standard Georgian", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 36 (2): 255–264 

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