Open-mid front unrounded vowel
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Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.
represents a rounded vowel.
| IPA – number | 303 |
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| IPA – image | 
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| Entity | ɛ |
| X-SAMPA | E |
| Kirshenbaum | E |
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 ɛ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is E.
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.
Occurs in
- Dutch: bed [bɛt], 'bed'
- English: (GA) bed [bɛd]; (NZE) fat [fɛ̝t]
- Faroese: elska [ɛlska], 'love'
- French: bête [bɛt], 'animal'
- German: Bett [bɛt], 'bed'
- Hungarian: nem [nɛm], 'no'
- Icelandic: ég [jɛg], 'I'
- Portuguese: café [kɐfɛ], 'coffee'
- Polish: lek [lɛk], 'medicine'
- Scottish Gaelic: aig [ɛk], 'at'
- Vietnamese: té [tɛ́], 'to fall'
- Yoruba: ẹsẹ̀ [ɛ̄sɛ̀], 'leg/foot'
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