Open-mid vowel

 ( Vowels By Height ) 

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 . 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.

Ratree Wayland (2026). 9781108418348, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108418348

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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.

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