A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a central vowel is that the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel. (In practice, unrounded central vowels tend to be further forward and rounded central vowels further back.)
Central vowel | |
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◌̈ | |
IPA Number | 415 |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | ̈ |
Unicode (hex) | U+0308 |
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Legend: unrounded • rounded |
The central vowels that have dedicated symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet are:
There also are central vowels that do not have dedicated symbols in the IPA: