Near-open central 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 | ɐ |
| IPA – image | Missing image Xsampa-6.png Image:Xsampa-6.png |
| entity | ɐ |
| X-SAMPA | 6 |
| Kirshenbaum | &" |
| Missing image Loudspeaker.png Sound Sound sample? | |
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The near-open central vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɐ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 6. The symbol ɐ is a turned printed letter 'a'.
Features
- Its vowel height is near-open, which means the tongue is positioned similarly to an open vowel, but slightly more constricted.
- Its vowel backness is central, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.
Occurs in
- English: (AuE and NZE) cut [kɐt] and cart [kɐːt]; (New England English) winter [ˈwɪntɐ]
- German: besser [ˈbɛsɐ]
- European Portuguese: amo [ˈɐmɔ]