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Aclose-mid vowel (alsomid-close vowel,high-mid vowel,mid-high vowel orhalf-close vowel) is any in a class ofvowel sound used in some spokenlanguages. The defining characteristic of a close-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned about one third of the way from aclose vowel to anopen vowel.[1]
The close-mid vowels that have dedicated symbols in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet are:
Other close-mid vowels can be indicated with diacritics ofrelative articulation applied to letters for neighboring vowels.
