Close-mid vowel

 ( Vowels By Height ) 

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

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Partial list The close-mid vowels that have dedicated symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

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

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

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