ɜ

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ɜ U+025C, ɜ
LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED OPEN E
ɛ
[U+025B]
IPA Extensions ɝ
[U+025D]
See also: [U+1D08 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED OPEN E] and Appendix:Variations of "e"

Translingual

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Alternative forms

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(IPA): The letter was adopted into the IPA in 1921 as a turned epsilon . Sometime between the IPA chart published in 1957 and the 1989 Kiel Convention, it started to be rendered as a reversed epsilon ɜ, its current form.

Pronunciation

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  • (IPA):
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Symbol

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ɜ

  1. (IPA) An open-mid central unrounded vowel.
  2. (superscript ⟨ᶟ⟩, IPA) [ɜ]-coloring or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo [ɜ].
  3. (UPA) A wildcard for any vowel, or for a vowel of uncertain quality.
    Coordinate term: ʌ
    Coordinate terms: , ᴕ̈,
vowel wildcards in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet

Kildin Sami

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Letter

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ɜ (dz) (upper case )

  1. (obsolete) A letter of the Unified Northern Alphabet.