Near-open Front Unrounded Vowel Information
Paired vowels are: unrounded • rounded.
The near-open front 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 æ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is {. The IPA symbol is the lowercase ae ligature, and both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as "ash".
In practice, /æ/ is sometimes used to represent an open front unrounded vowel; see the introduction to that page for more information.
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Features
- Its vowel height is near-open, which means the tongue is positioned similarly to an open vowel, but slightly more constricted.
- Its vowel backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
- Its vowel roundedness is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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| Ahtna | kuggaedi | [kʰuk̠æti] | 'mosquito' | ||
| Arabic | Standard[1] | كتاب | [kiˈt̪æːb] | 'book' | Allophone of /a/ in the environment of plain labial and coronal consonants as well as /j/. See Arabic phonology |
| Azerbaijani | səs | [sæs] | 'sound' | ||
| Bengali | এক | [æk] | 'one' | See Bengali phonology | |
| English | cat | [kʰæt] | 'cat' | In some accents it is more open. In others it is closer. The length also varies. See English phonology | |
| Danish | Dansk | [d̥ænsɡ̊] | 'Danish' | See Danish phonology | |
| Finnish | mäki | [ˈmæki] | 'hill' | See Finnish phonology | |
| German | Bernese | drääje | [ˈtræːjə] | 'turn' | See Bernese German phonology |
| Greek[2] | Thessaly, Macedonia, Thrace | [example needed] | [] | -- | See Modern Greek phonology |
| Hindi | बैल | [bæl] | 'oxen' | See Hindi-Urdu phonology | |
| Jalapa Mazatec | tsæ | [tsǣ] | 'guava' | ||
| Norwegian | lær | [læːɾ] | 'leather' | See Norwegian phonology | |
| Persian | در | [dær] | 'door' | See Persian phonology | |
| Russian[3] | пять | [pʲætʲ] | 'five' | Allophone of /a/ between palatalized consonants. See Russian phonology | |
| Sinhala | කැමති | [kæməti] | 'to like' | ||
| Slovak[4] | väzy | [ˈʋæzɪ] | 'ligaments' | Somewhat rare pronunciation, with [ɛ] being more common. | |
| Swedish | päron | [ˈpæˌrɔn] | 'pear' | Allophone of /ɛ/ before /r/. See Swedish phonology | |
| Vietnamese | Some northern dialects | pha | [fæ] | 'phase' | Corresponds to [a] in other dialects. See Vietnamese phonology |
| Yaghan | mæpi | [mæpi] | 'reed' | ||
References
- ^ Holes (2004:60)
- ^ Newton (1972:11)
- ^ Jones & Ward (1969:50)
- ^ Hanulíková & Hamann (2010:374)
Bibliography
- Hanulíková, Adriana; Hamann, Silke (2010), "Slovak", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 40 (3): 373–378
- Holes, Clive (2004), Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions, and Varieties, Georgetown University Press, ISBN 1589010221
- Jones, Daniel; Dennis, Ward (1969), The Phonetics of Russian, Cambridge University Press
- Newton, Brian (1972). The Generative Interpretation of Dialect: A Study of Modern Greek Phonology. Cabridge Studies in Linguistics. 8. Cambridge University Press.
Categories: Vowels
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aeLigature from the letters a and e near-open front unrounded vowel
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The first letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet A Used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts ...