Open-mid vowel
An open-mid vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of an open-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned approximately one third of the way from an open vowel to a close vowel.
Examples
Some of the open-mid vowels that have dedicated symbols in the International [Phonetic Alphabet] are:- open-mid [front unrounded vowel]
- open-mid front [rounded vowel]
- open-mid [central unrounded vowel]
- open-mid central rounded vowel
- open-mid back unrounded vowel
- open-mid back rounded vowel