IPA number 303 Unicode (hex) U+025B Kirshenbaum E | Entity (decimal) ɛ X-SAMPA E | |
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The open-mid front unrounded vowel, or low-mid 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 a Latinized variant of the Greek lowercase epsilon, ⟨ɛ⟩.
Contents
The IPA prefers terms "close" and "open" for vowels, and the name of the article follows this. However, a large number of linguists, perhaps a majority, prefer the terms "high" and "low".
Features
Occurrence
The vowel transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɛ⟩ in Standard Eastern Norwegian is actually mid.
References
Open-mid front unrounded vowel Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA