Close-mid vowel
A close-mid vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a close-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned one third of the way from a close vowel to an open vowel.The close-mid vowels that have dedicated symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet are:
Other close-mid vowels can be indicated with diacritics of relative articulation applied to letters for neighboring vowels.
