Near-open front unrounded vowel

The near-open front unrounded vowel, or near-low front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a lowercase of the ligature. Both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as "ash".

The rounded counterpart of , the near-open front rounded vowel (for which the IPA provides no separate symbol) has been reported to occur allophonically in Danish; see open front rounded vowel for more information.

In practice, is sometimes used to represent the open front unrounded vowel; see the introduction to that page for more information.

In IPA transcriptions of Hungarian and Valencian, this vowel is typically written with .

Features

Occurrence Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Afrikaans Standard 'horse' Allophone of , in some dialects, before . See Afrikaans phonologyÄiwooikuwä[ikuwæ]'I go'Distinguished from both and . Arabic Standard (kitāb) 'book' Allophone of in the environment of plain labial and coronal consonants as well as (depending on the speaker's accent). See Arabic phonology Azerbaijani 'Azerbaijan' Bambam bätä 'stem' Bashkir (yäy) 'summer' Bengali /bêṅ 'frog' Also pronounced as . See Bengali phonology BulgarianMoesian dialects (mlechen)'made from milk'Descendant of Proto-Slavic *ě in places where Standard Bulgarian would have //. See Yat. Rup dialects Descendant of Proto-Slavic *ě in all positions. See Yat. Teteven dialect (măzh) 'man' In place of Standard Bulgarian [] (written as ъ). Erkech dialect Catalan Many Balearic speakers 'thesis' Main realization of . See Catalan phonology Valencian Main realization of . Slightly more open and centralized (near-front) before liquids and in monosyllabics. See Catalan phonology 'Earth, land' Final unstressed (usually involving vowel harmony). Can be realized as rounded and/or back. See Catalan phonology 'ray' Palatal variant of . It can be more open (). See Catalan phonology 'bag' Mallorcan -fronting found in some speakers. It can be more open (). See Catalan phonology Chechen () 'eagle' Danish Standard 'Danish' Most often transcribed in IPA with – the way it is realized by certain older or upper-class speakers. See Danish phonology Dutch 'pen' Allophone of before and coda . In non-standard accents this allophone is generalized to other positions, where is used in Standard Dutch. See Dutch phonology English Cultivated New Zealand cat 'cat' Higher in other New Zealand varieties. See New Zealand English phonology General American See English phonology Conservative Received Pronunciation Fully open in Standard Southern British. See English phonology Estonian 'agile' Near-front. See Estonian phonology Finnish 'hill' See Finnish phonology French Parisian 'bath' Nasalized; typically transcribed in IPA with . See French phonology Quebec 'worm' Allophone of before or in open syllables, and of in closed syllables. See Quebec French phonology German Standard Austrian 'allow' Variant of pretonic . See Standard German phonology West Central German accents 'or' Used instead of . See Standard German phonology Northern accents 'everything' Lower and often also more back in other accents. See Standard German phonology Western Swiss accents 'late' Open-mid or close-mid in other accents; contrasts with the open-mid . See Standard German phonology Greek Macedonia (gáta) 'cat' See Modern Greek phonology Thessaly Thrace Pontic 'baskets' Hindustani Hindi न्यूज़ीलैंड (Nyu Zilaind) 'New Zealand' An allophone of that appears in English loanwords. See Hindustani phonology. Urdu نیوزی لینڈ (Nyu Zilaind) Hungarian 'no' Typically transcribed in IPA with . See Hungarian phonologyKanoê'tobacco' Kazakh (äiel)'woman'Varies between near-open and open-mid.KurdishSorani (Central) (galte)'joke'Equal to Palewani (Southern) front . See Kurdish phonology Lakon 'evening' Limburgish 'twelve' Front or near-front, depending on the dialect. The example word is from the Maastrichtian dialect, in which the vowel is near-front. Lithuanian 'yacht' (accusative) See Lithuanian phonology Low Saxon Including Sallandic 'glasses' Luxembourgish 'heads' See Luxembourgish phonology Norwegian Urban East 'leather' See Norwegian phonology PersianMajidi & Ternes (1991) (hašt) [hæʃt]'eight' Portuguese Some dialectsPortuguese: A Linguistic Introduction – by Milton M. Azevedo Page 186. 'stone' Stressed vowel. In other dialects closer . See Portuguese phonology Some European speakersLista das marcas dialetais e outros fenómenos de variação (fonética e fonológica) identificados nas amostras do Arquivo Dialetal do CLUP 'also' Stressed vowel, allophone of nasal vowel . Romanian Bukovinian dialect 'skin' Corresponds to in standard Romanian. Also identified in some Central Transylvanian sub-dialects. See Romanian phonology Russian (pyatʹ) 'five' Allophone of between palatalized consonants. See Russian phonology Serbo-Croatian Zeta-Raška dialect / 'day' Regional reflex of Proto-Slavic *ь and *ъ. Sometimes nasalised. Sinhala ඇය (æya) 'she' Slovak'meat, flesh'In conversation sometimes pronounced as or . See Slovak phonology Swedish Central Standard 'hono(u)r' Allophone of before . See Swedish phonology Stockholm 'to read' Realization of for younger speakers. Higher for other speakers Turkish 'you' Allophone of before syllable-final . In a limited number of words (but not before ), it is in free variation with . See Turkish phonology

Near-open front unrounded vowel

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