Open-mid central unrounded vowel
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| Open-mid central unrounded vowel | |||
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| ɜ | |||
| IPA Number | 326 | ||
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| Entity (decimal) | ɜ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+025C | ||
| X-SAMPA | 3 | ||
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Legend: unrounded • rounded |
The open-mid central unrounded vowel, or low-mid central unrounded vowel,[1] is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɜ⟩ (formerly ⟨ᴈ⟩). The IPA symbol is not the digit ⟨3⟩ or the Cyrillic small letter Ze (з). The symbol is instead a reversed Latinized variant of the lowercase epsilon, ɛ. The value was specified only in 1993; until then, ⟨ɜ⟩ was an alternative symbol for the mid central unrounded vowel [ə].
The ⟨ɜ⟩ letter may be used with a raising diacritic ⟨ɜ̝⟩, to denote the mid central unrounded vowel. It may also be used with a lowering diacritic ⟨ɜ̞⟩, to denote the near-open central unrounded vowel.
Conversely, ⟨ə⟩, the symbol for the mid central vowel may be used with a lowering diacritic ⟨ə̞⟩ to denote the open-mid central unrounded vowel, although that is more specifically written with an additional unrounding diacritic ⟨ə̞͑⟩ to explicitly denote the lack of rounding (the canonical value of IPA ⟨ə⟩ is undefined for rounding).
Features
[edit]- Its vowel height is open-mid, also known as low-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between an open vowel (a low vowel) and a mid vowel.
- Its vowel backness is central, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.
- It is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded.
Occurrence
[edit]| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Standard[2] | lig | [lə̞χ] | 'light' | Also described as mid [ə],[3] typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ə⟩. See Afrikaans phonology |
| Cotabato Manobo[4] | [bätɜʔ] | 'child' | Allophone of /a/ before glottal consonants; may be transcribed in IPA with ⟨ʌ⟩.[4] | ||
| Dutch[5] | grappig | [ˈχɾɑpə̞χ] | 'funny' | Possible realization of /ə/.[5] See Dutch phonology | |
| Emilian | Bolognese | métter | [ˈmet̪ːɜr] | 'to put' | [citation needed] |
| English | Ohio[6] | bud | [bɜd] | 'bud' | One realization of the vowel transcribed in IPA with ⟨ʌ⟩ in American English, typical of Midland or Southern American English. It is not a standard pronunciation throughout the whole country.[7][6] |
| Most Texas speakers[6] | |||||
| Northern Wales[8] | Some speakers.[8] Corresponds to /ə/ in other Welsh dialects.[9] | ||||
| Scottish[10] | [bɜ̠d] | Somewhat retracted; may be more back /ʌ/ instead. | |||
| German | Chemnitz dialect[11] | passe | [ˈb̥ɜsə] | '[I] pass' | Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨a⟩. |
| Many speakers[12] | herrlich | [ˈhɜːlɪç] | 'fantastic' | Common alternative to the diphthong [ɛɐ̯].[12] See Standard German phonology | |
| Hausa[13] | [example needed] | Possible allophone of /a/, which can be as close as [ə] and as open as [ä].[13] | |||
| Jebero[14] | [ˈkɘnmɜʔ] | 'indigenous person' | Allophone of /a/ in closed syllables.[14] | ||
| Kaingang[15] | [ˈɾɜ] | 'mark' | Varies between central [ɜ] and back [ʌ].[16] | ||
| Kalagan Kaagan[17] | [mɜˈt̪äs] | 'tall' | Allophone of /a/; may be transcribed in IPA with ⟨ʌ⟩.[17] | ||
| Kallahan[18] | [example needed] | ||||
| Ladin | Gherdëina | Urtijëi | [uʀtiˈʒɜi̯] | Urtijëi | When stressed usually spelled with the letter ë. |
| Neapolitan | Central Basilicatan varieties (Appennine Area) | pesäre | [pə׳sɜrə] or [pə׳sɜ̃rə] | 'to weigh' | Nasalization [ɜ̃] occurs in dialects such as Accetturese.[19] |
| Paicî[20] | rë | [ɾɜ] | 'they' (prefix) | May be transcribed in IPA with ⟨ʌ⟩. | |
| Romanian | Standard[21] | măr | [mə̞r] | 'apple' | Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ə⟩. See Romanian phonology |
| Transylvanian varieties of Romanian[22] | așa | [aˈʂɜ] | 'such' | Corresponds to [ä] in standard Romanian. See Romanian phonology | |
| Sama | Sibutu[23] | [ˈsäpɜw] | 'roof' | Allophone of /a/; may be transcribed in IPA with ⟨ʌ⟩.[23] | |
| Sindhi[24] | [sə̞rə̞] | 'funeral' | Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ə⟩. | ||
| Temne[25] | pʌs | [pɜ́s] | 'brew' | Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ʌ⟩.[25] | |
| Yiddish | Standard[26] | ענלעך | [ˈɛnlɜχ] | 'similar' | Unstressed vowel.[26] See Yiddish phonology |
See also
[edit]- R-colored vowel, a related phoneme in rhotic dialects of English
Notes
[edit]- ^ While the International Phonetic Association prefers the terms "close" and "open" for vowel height, many linguists use "high" and "low".
- ^ Wissing (2012), p. 711.
- ^ Wissing (2016), section "The rounded and unrounded mid-central vowels".
- ^ a b Kerr (1988), pp. 110, 113.
- ^ a b Collins & Mees (2003), p. 129.
- ^ a b c Thomas (2001), pp. 27–28.
- ^ Ladefoged (1993), p. 82.
- ^ a b Tench (1990), p. 135.
- ^ Wells (1982), pp. 380–381.
- ^ Lodge (2009), p. 167.
- ^ Khan & Weise (2013), p. 236.
- ^ a b Dudenredaktion, Kleiner & Knöbl (2015), p. 52.
- ^ a b Schuh & Yalwa (1999), pp. 90–91.
- ^ a b Valenzuela & Gussenhoven (2013), p. 101.
- ^ Jolkesky (2009), pp. 676–677, 682.
- ^ Jolkesky (2009), pp. 676, 682.
- ^ a b Wendel & Wendel (1978), p. 198.
- ^ Santiago (2010), pp. 1, 8–10.
- ^ Volpe, Luigi (2011). La lingua dei masciaioli : dizionario del dialetto di Accettura, cittadina lucana in provincia di Matera / Luigi Volpe ; presentazione [di] Patrizia Del Puente (in Italian). Potenza: EditricErmes.
- ^ Gordon & Maddieson (1996), p. 118.
- ^ Sarlin (2014), p. 18.
- ^ Pop (1938), p. 30.
- ^ a b Allison (1979), p. 82.
- ^ Nihalani (1999), p. 132.
- ^ a b Kanu & Tucker (2010), p. 249.
- ^ a b Kleine (2003), p. 263.
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- Gordon, Matthew J.; Maddieson, Ian (1996), "The phonetics of Paici", in Maddieson, Ian (ed.), UCLA working papers in phonetics: Fieldwork studies of targeted languages IV, vol. 93, Los Angeles: The UCLA Phonetics Laboratory Group, pp. 111–124
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