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Open-mid central rounded vowel

Vowel sound represented by ⟨ɞ⟩ in IPA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Open-mid central rounded vowel
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The open-mid central rounded vowel, or low-mid central rounded vowel,[1] is a vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɞ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 3\. The symbol is called closed reversed epsilon. It was added to the IPA in 1993; before that, this vowel was transcribed ɔ̈.

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IPA charts were first published with this vowel transcribed as a closed epsilon, ʚ (that is, a closed variant of ɛ, much as the high-mid vowel letter ɵ is a closed variant of e), and this variant made its way into Unicode as U+029A ʚ LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED OPEN E. The IPA charts were later changed to the current closed reversed epsilon ɞ, and this was adopted into Unicode as U+025E ɞ LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E.

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