Mid_vowel Mid_vowel

Mid vowel - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Allophone, Alveolar, Apical, Articulation, Aspiration, Assimilated, Assimilation, Back, Bilabial, Central, Cerebral, Check, Consonant, Dental, Diphthong, Dissimilation
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
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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:

Example Usage of vowel
URworthit2: Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. Bill Cosby
sew4the8r: @MusicalConstant Y is a pissant. Never always wants to be a vowel
JiggyJeff: RT @BriMaree @JiggyJeff seriously--I made a vowel that last year was my last time
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