Open-mid front unrounded vowel

Phonetic sound

open-mid front unrounded vowel
Symbol (font)	[ɶ#ɐ0ɜ;]
Symbol (image)	File:Xsampa-E2.png
IPA–number	303
Entity (decimal)	ɛ
Unicode (hex)	U+025B
X-SAMPA	E
Kirshenbaum	E
Sound sample

   IPA vowel chartimage • File:Loudspeaker.svg audio

	Front	Near-​front	Central	Near-​back	Back
Close	File:Blank vowel trapezoid.svg [[[close fɾont unɾounded vowel|i]]] • [[[close fɾont ɾounded vowel|y]]] [[[close centɾal unɾounded vowel|ɨ]]] • [[[close centɾal ɾounded vowel|ʉ]]] [[[close back unɾounded vowel|ɯ]]] • [[[close back ɾounded vowel|u]]] [[[neaɾ-close neaɾ-fɾont unɾounded vowel|ɪ]]] • [[[neaɾ-close neaɾ-fɾont ɾounded vowel|ʏ]]] [[[neaɾ-close centɾal unɾounded vowel|ɪ̈]]] • [[[neaɾ-close centɾal ɾounded vowel|ʊ̈]]]  • [[[neaɾ-close neaɾ-back ɾounded vowel|ʊ]]] [[[close-mid fɾont unɾounded vowel|e]]] • [[[close-mid fɾont ɾounded vowel|ø]]] [[[close-mid centɾal unɾounded vowel|ɘ]]] • [[[close-mid centɾal ɾounded vowel|ɵ]]] [[[close-mid back unɾounded vowel|ɤ]]] • [[[close-mid back ɾounded vowel|o]]] [[[mid-centɾal vowel|ə]]] [[[open-mid fɾont unɾounded vowel|ɛ]]] • [[[open-mid fɾont ɾounded vowel|œ]]] [[[open-mid centɾal unɾounded vowel|ɜ]]] • [[[open-mid centɾal ɾounded vowel|ɞ]]] [[[open-mid back unɾounded vowel|ʌ]]] • [[[open-mid back ɾounded vowel|ɔ]]] [[[neaɾ-open fɾont unɾounded vowel|æ]]] • [[[neaɾ-open centɾal vowel|ɐ]]] [[[open fɾont unɾounded vowel|a]]] • [[[open fɾont ɾounded vowel|ɶ]]] [[[open back unɾounded vowel|ɑ]]] • [[[open back ɾounded vowel|ɒ]]]
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open
[ɶnbsp;•ɶ#ɜø;] Where vowels are paired, the one on the left is unrounded and the one on the right rounded.

The open-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 [‹ɛ›].

Features

• Its vowel height is open-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between an open vowel and a mid vowel.
• 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.

Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Albanian		tre	tɾɛ	'three'
Chinese	Cantonese	蛇/se4	sɛː˩	'snake'	See Cantonese phonology
	Mandarin	斜/xié	ɕjɛ˧˥	'tilted'	See Mandarin phonology
Catalan		sec	sɛk	'dry'	See Catalan phonology
Czech		Amerika	amɛɾɪka	'America'	See Czech phonology
Dutch		bed	bɛt	'bed'	See Dutch phonology
English	GA	bed	bɛd	'bed'	See English phonology
	New Zealand	fat	fɛ̝t	'fat'
Faroese		elska	ɛlska	'love'
French		bête	bɛt	'animal'	See French phonology
Galician		pé	pɛ	'foot'
Georgian		გედი	ɡɛdi	'swan'
German		Bett	bɛt	'bed'	See German phonology
Hungarian		nem	nɛm	'no'	See Hungarian phonology
Icelandic		ég	jɛɣ	'I'
Italian		bene	ˈbɛːne	'good'	See Italian phonology
Kabardian		Iэ	ʔɛ	'to tell'
Lithuanian		mane	mɐˈnɛ	'me' (accusative)
Ngwe	Njoagwi dialect	lɛ̀ɾɛ́		'eye'
Norwegian		nett	nɛt	'net'	See Norwegian phonology
Polish		ten	Pl-ten.ogg [[:Media:Pl-ten.ogg|tɛn]]	'this one'	See Polish phonology
Portuguese		café	kɐˈfɛ	'coffee'	See Portuguese phonology
Russian		это	ˈɛtə	'this'	See Russian phonology
Scottish Gaelic		aig	ɛk	'at'
Serbian		mleko/млеко	mlɛːko	'milk'
Seri		me	mɛ	'you'
Swedish		ät	ɛːt	'eat' (imperative)	See Swedish phonology
Vietnamese		e	ɛ	'to fear'	See Vietnamese phonology
Yoruba		ẹsẹ̀	ɛ̄sɛ	'leg/foot'

See also

• List of phonetics topics

Bibliography

• Carbonell, Joan F.; Llisterri, Joaquim (1992), "Catalan", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 22 (1-2): 53–56 
• Cruz-Ferreira, Madalena (1995), "European Portuguese", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 25 (2): 90–94 
• Fougeron, Cecile; Smith, Caroline L (1993), "Illustrations of the IPA:French", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 23 (2): 73–76 
• Jones, Daniel; Dennis, Ward (1969), The Phonetics of Russian, Cambridge University Press 
• Jassem, Wiktor (2003), "Polish", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 33 (1): 103–107 
• Rogers, Derek; d'Arcangeli, Luciana (2004), "Italian", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 34 (1): 117–121 
• Shosted, Ryan K.; Vakhtang, Chikovani (2006), "Standard Georgian", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 36 (2): 255–264 

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