Open-mid front unrounded vowel

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Vowels

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Front

Near-front

Central

Near-back

Back

Close

Image:Blank vowel trapezoid.png

i • y

ɨ • ʉ

ɯ • u

ɪ • ʏ

• ʊ

e • ø

ɘ • ɵ

ɤ • o

ɛ • œ

ɜ • ɞ

ʌ • ɔ

a • ɶ

ɑ • ɒ

Near‑close

Close‑mid

Mid

Open‑mid

Near‑open

Open

Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.

IPA – number	303
IPA – text	ɛ
IPA – image	Image:Xsampa-E2.png
Entity	ɛ
X-SAMPA	`E`
Kirshenbaum	`E`
Sound sample (help·info)

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.

1 Features
2 Occurrence
3 See also
4 References

[edit] 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.

[edit] Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Albanian		tre	[tɾɛ]	'three'
Cantonese		蛇/se4	[sɛː]	'snake'	See Standard Cantonese
Catalan		cafè	[kəˈfɛ]	'coffee'	See Catalan phonology
Czech		amerika	[amɛrɪka]	'America'	See Czech phonology
Dutch		bed	[bɛt]	'bed'	See Dutch phonology
English	GA	bed	[bɛd]	'bed'	See English phonology
English	New Zealand	fat	[fɛ̝t]	'fat'	See English phonology
Faroese		elska	[ɛlska]	'love'
French		bête	[bɛt]	'animal'	Phonemically contrasts with nasalized form (/ɛ̃/). See French phonology
Georgian^[1]		გედი	[gɛdi]	'swan'
German		Bett	[bɛt]	'bed'	See German phonology
Hungarian		nem	[nɛm]	'no'	See Hungarian phonology
Icelandic		ég	[jɛɣ]	'I'
Italian		sette	[ˈsɛtte]	'seven; sects'	See Italian phonology
Kabardian		Iэ	[ʔɛ]	'to tell'
Mandarin		斜/xie2	[ɕjɛ]	'tilted'	See Standard Mandarin
Ngwe	Njoagwi dialect	[lɛ̀rɛ́]		'eye'
Norwegian		nett	[nɛt]	'net'	See Norwegian phonology
Polish		lek	[lɛk]	'medicine'	See Polish phonology
Portuguese		café	[kɐfɛ]	'coffee'	See Portuguese phonology
Russian		это	[ˈɛtə]	'this'	See Russian phonology
Scottish Gaelic		aig	[ɛk]	'at'
Seri		me	[mɛ]	'you'
Swedish		ät	[ɛːt]	'eat' (imperative)	See Swedish phonology
Vietnamese		té	[tɛ́]	'to fall'
Yoruba		ẹsẹ̀	[ɛ̄sɛ]	'leg/foot'

[edit] See also

List of phonetics topics

[edit] References

^ Shosted & Chikovani (2006:261-262)

Shosted, Ryan K. & Chikovani Vakhtang (2006), "Standard Georgian", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 36 (2): 255-264br:Vogalenn digor-etre a-raok plaen

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