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