Open-mid front unrounded vowel
| Open-mid front unrounded vowel | |||
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| ɛ | |||
| IPA number | 303 | ||
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| Entity (decimal) | ɛ |
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| Unicode (hex) | U+025B | ||
| X-SAMPA | E |
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| Kirshenbaum | 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⟩.
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".
The vowel transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɛ⟩ in Standard Eastern Norwegian is actually mid.
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