Open-mid central unrounded vowel - Definition and Overview

	front	near-front	central	near-back	back
Vowels

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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Sound sample
IPA - Unicode	ɜ
IPA - image
X-SAMPA	`3`
Kirshenbaum	`V"`

The open-mid central 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 ɜ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 3. Note that the IPA symbol is not the number "3", but a reversed epsilon. Features of this vowel:

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 central, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.
Its vowel roundedness is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded.

Example Usage of unrounded
	KJasperian: --but while existence may be termed infinite as a relatively rounded endlessness, the infinity of Existenz is unrounded an open possibility.
	clem13: WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP UNFOLLOWING ME?!?!? 49 is such a horrible unrounded number :( please please 50? :)
	ONaRhian: Introducing the "can't-be-bothered" vowel.. The Schwa! Distant cousin of the open-mid back unrounded vowel... Linguistics makes me so nerdy

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Open-mid central unrounded vowel - Definition and Overview

Example Usage of unrounded