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| front | near-front | central | near-back | back | |||||||||||||
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| close | i • y | ɨ • ʉ | ɯ • near-close | ɪ • close-mid | e • ø | ɘ • ɵ | ɤ • mid | ə | |||||||||
| open-mid | ɛ • œ | ɜ • ɞ | ʌ • near-open | open | a • ɶ | ɑ • Table of vowels | |||||||||||
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A mid vowel is a vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned mid-way between an open vowel and a close vowel. The schwa is the only mid vowel identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet:
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