ɜ
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Character variations
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See also: ᴈ [U+1D08 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED OPEN E] and Appendix:Variations of "e"
Translingual
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit](IPA): The letter was adopted into the IPA in 1921 as a turned epsilon ⟨ᴈ⟩. 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
[edit]- (IPA):
IPA: (file)
Symbol
[edit]ɜ
- (IPA) An open-mid central unrounded vowel.
- (superscript ⟨ᶟ⟩, IPA) [ɜ]-coloring or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo [ɜ].
- (UPA) A wildcard for any vowel, or for a vowel of uncertain quality.
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Letter
[edit]ɜ (upper case Ɜ)
- (obsolete) A letter of the Unified Northern Alphabet, written in the Latin script.