Close-mid front unrounded vowel
| Vowels | |||||
| front | near-front | central | near-back | back | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| close | i • y | ɨ • ʉ | ɯ • u | ||
| near-close | ɪ • ʏ | ʊ | |||
| close-mid | e • ø | ɘ • ɵ | ɤ • o | ||
| mid | ə | ||||
| open-mid | ɛ • œ | ɜ • ɞ | ʌ • ɔ | ||
| near-open | æ | ɐ | |||
| open | a • ɶ | ɑ • ɒ | |||
| Table of vowels - List of vowels | |||||
| IPA – text | e |
| IPA – image | Missing image Xsampa-e.png Image:Xsampa-e.png |
| entity | e |
| X-SAMPA | e |
| Kirshenbaum | e |
| Missing image Loudspeaker.png Sound Sound sample? | |
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The close-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 e, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is e.
Features
- Its vowel height is close-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between close 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.
Occurs in
- English: (AuE) bet [bet] and hair [heː]; (NZE) bet [bet]
- In RP and GA, this vowel occurs only as the first part of the diphthong [eɪ], as in late [leɪt], play [pleɪ].
- In Canadian English, this vowel may occur alone in words like bait during rapid speech.
- French: beauté [boˈte], 'beauty'
- German: Seele [ˈzeːlə], 'soul'
- Hungarian: hét [heːt], 'week, seven'
- Spanish: bebé [beˈβe], 'baby'