User:40bus/IPA/Voiceless vowels


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! ! Front ! Central ! Back ! Close ! Near-close ! Mid ! Open
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 * are similar to the respective cardinal vowels.
 * are phonetically near-close.
 * are true-mid monophthongs when short and opening diphthongs  (also transcribed as ) when long. The long allophones are typically transcribed, also in this article.
 * are traditionally indicated with rounded front vowel symbols, but they are actually rounded central vowels closer in backness to respectively.   in particular is very close to a true schwa, but rounded.  This article uses the symbols.
 * is central (which can also be represented as  or ).