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Meaning of "close-mid"
Close-mid is a linguistic term used to describe a vowel sound that is articulated with the tongue positioned between close and mid position
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- pronounced with the tongue in a position approximately two-thirds of the way between an open and a close vowel
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Their acoustic quality is more or less close-mid central.
Close-mid vowels are transcribed as diphthongs according to the same page.
The minuscule is also use for the close-mid central rounded vowel.
See close-mid central unrounded vowel.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the lowercase represents the close-mid central rounded vowel.
See close-mid central rounded vowel.
Front Back Close i iː u uː Close-mid e eː o oː Open a aː.
Close-mid unrounded back vowel.
And are long close-mid vowels.
Close-mid rounded front vowel.
This letter usually represents the close-mid central unrounded vowel / ɘ /.
Close-mid unrounded front vowel.
In Dungan, it represents the close-mid back unrounded vowel.
Close-mid back rounded vowel.
Front Central Back Close i iː (ɨ) u uː Close-Mid e eː o oː Open a aː.
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The long close-mid vowels / eː, oː / may be realised as monophthongs or as opening diphthongs.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, ⟨ o ⟩ represents the close-mid back rounded vowel.
Acoustically, it is a close-mid front-central rounded vowel.
Languages may have a mid-central rounded vowel ( a rounded ), distinct from both the close-mid and open-mid vowels.
The exact phonetic realization of the close-mid vowels /e, o/ depends on the dialect.
In Seneca, the letter Ë is used to represent / ẽ /, a close-mid front unrounded nasalized vowel.
In Dungan, it represents the close-mid back unrounded vowel / ɤ /.
In Altay, Khakas and Shor, it represents the close-mid front rounded vowel / ø /.
