Article in other languages:
- Vogalenn_digor-etre_a-greiz_plaen
- Ungerundeter_halboffener_Zentralvokal
- Vocal_semiabierta_central_no_redondeada
- Voyelle_mi-ouverte_centrale_non_arrondie
- 중설_비원순_중저모음
- Vocale_centrale_semiaperta_non_arrotondata
- Vokal_tak_bundar_pusat_separuh_luas
- 非円唇中舌半広母音
- Samogłoska_półotwarta_centralna_niezaokrąglona
- Неогубленный_гласный_среднего_ряда_средне-нижнего_подъёма
- Полуотворен_незаобљен_самогласник_средњег_реда
- Неогублений_голосний_середнього_ряду_низько-середнього_піднесення
See also: IPA, Consonants
| Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |
| Close | |||||
| Near-close | |||||
| Close-mid | |||||
| Mid | |||||
| Open-mid | |||||
| Near-open | |||||
| Open | |||||
Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents
a rounded vowel. Vowel length is indicated by appending ː
a rounded vowel. Vowel length is indicated by appending ː
| IPA – number | 326 |
| IPA – text | ɜ |
| IPA – image |  |
| Entity | ɜ |
| X-SAMPA | 3 |
| Kirshenbaum | V" |
 Sound sample (help·info) |
|
The open-mid central unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɜ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 3. Note that the IPA symbol is not the number "3", but a reversed epsilon.
Contents |
Features
- Its vowel height is open-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between an open 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.
- Its vowel roundedness is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | RP[1] | bird | [bɜːd] | 'bird' | In (non-RP) rhotic dialects, [ɜː] occurs in a rhotacized form in stressed syllables. |
| Ohio[2] | bust | [bɜst] | 'bust' | The most common realization of the vowel transcribed as < ʌ > in American English.[2][1] | |
| most of Texas[2] | |||||
| Paicĩ | [mbʷɜ̄] | 'remainder' | |||
Notes
Bibliography
- Ladefoged, Peter. (1993). A course in phonetics (3rd ed.). Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers.
- Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 34 (2): 239-245
- Thomas, Erik R. (2001), An acoustic analysis of vowel variation in New World English, Publication of the American Dialect Society, 85, Duke University Press for the American Dialect Society, ISSN 0002-8207
Questions for article: