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 central, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.

• Its vowel roundedness may be rounded or unrounded. If precision is desired, the symbol for the open-mid central unrounded vowel may be used with a lowering diacritic, for the unrounded near-open central vowel, , and the symbol for the open-mid central rounded vowel with a lowering diacritic may be used for the rounded near-open central vowel, .

Occurrence