Close-mid central unrounded vowel


The close-mid central unrounded vowel, or high-mid central 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. This is a mirrored letter e, and should not be confused with the schwa, which is a turned e. It was added to the IPA in 1993; before that, this vowel was transcribed . Certain older sources transcribe this vowel.
The letter may be used with a lowering diacritic, to denote the mid central unrounded vowel.
Conversely,, the symbol for the mid central vowel may be used with a raising diacritic to denote the close-mid central unrounded vowel, although that is more accurately written with an additional unrounding diacritic to explicitly denote the lack of rounding.

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