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.
[1][2] Some of the open-mid vowels that have dedicated symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet are: Other open-mid vowels can be indicated with diacritics of relative articulation applied to letters for neighboring vowels.
[citation needed] Symbols to the right in a cell are voiced, to the left are voiceless.
Shaded areas denote articulations judged impossible.
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