title: Open-mid vowel
text: # Open-mid vowel
  
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  An open-mid vowel (also mid-open vowel, low-mid vowel, mid-low vowel or half-open vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of an open-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned one third of the way from an open vowel to a close vowel.
  
  ## Examples
  
  Some of the open-mid vowels that have dedicated symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet are:
  
  * open-mid front unrounded vowel [ɛ]
  * open-mid front rounded vowel [œ]
  * open-mid central unrounded vowel [ɜ] (older publications may use ⟨ɛ̈⟩)
  * open-mid central rounded vowel [ɞ] (older publications may use ⟨ɔ̈⟩)
  * open-mid back unrounded vowel [ʌ]
  * open-mid back rounded vowel [ɔ]
  
  Other open-mid vowels can be indicated with diacritics of relative articulation applied to letters for neighboring vowels.
  
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  Consonants :
  
  Vowels :
  
  Front
  
  Central
  
  Back
  
  Close
  
  i
  
  y
  
  ɨ
  
  ʉ
  
  ɯ
  
  u
  
  Near-close
  
  ɪ
  
  ʏ
  
  ʊ
  
  Close-mid
  
  e
  
  ø
  
  ɘ
  
  ɵ
  
  ɤ
  
  o
  
  Mid
  
  e̞
  
  ø̞
  
  ə
  
  ɤ̞
  
  o̞
  
  Open-mid
  
  ɛ
  
  œ
  
  ɜ
  
  ɞ
  
  ʌ
  
  ɔ
  
  Near-open
  
  æ
  
  ɐ
  
  Open
  
  a
  
  ɶ
  
  ä
  
  ɑ
  
  ɒ
  
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