Near-open front unrounded vowel
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| Vowels | |||||
| front | near-front | central | near-back | back | |
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| close | • | • | • | ||
| near-close | • | ||||
| close-mid | • | • | • | ||
| mid | |||||
| open-mid | • | • | • | ||
| near-open | |||||
| open | • | • | |||
| Table of vowels - List of vowels | |||||
The near-open 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 , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is {. The IPA symbol is the lowercase AE ligature, and both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as "ash".
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 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.