Open-mid vowel
# Open-mid vowel

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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 languages. The defining characteristic of an open-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned one third of the way from an open vowel to a close vowel.

## Examples

Some of the open-mid vowels that have dedicated symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

* open-mid front unrounded vowel [ɛ]
* open-mid front rounded vowel [œ]
* open-mid central unrounded vowel [ɜ] (older publications may use ⟨ɛ̈⟩)
* open-mid central rounded vowel [ɞ] (older publications may use ⟨ɔ̈⟩)
* open-mid back unrounded vowel [ʌ]
* open-mid back rounded vowel [ɔ]

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

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Front

Central

Back

Close

i

y

ɨ

ʉ

ɯ

u

Near-close

ɪ

ʏ

ʊ

Close-mid

e

ø

ɘ

ɵ

ɤ

o

Mid

e̞

ø̞

ə

ɤ̞

o̞

Open-mid

ɛ

œ

ɜ

ɞ

ʌ

ɔ

Near-open

æ

ɐ

Open

a

ɶ

ä

ɑ

ɒ

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