41+ Low Front Unrounded Vowel. Low back rounded vowel : Mid back rounded lax :
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However the very influential oxford dictionaries selected /e/ for this phoneme. High back rounded tense vowel. The vowel with the lowest tongue elevation is /ɑ/ (as in american and british pronunciations of the word palm).
Mid back rounded tense vowel.
It is, therefore, the low back unrounded vowel. The technical names of vowels tell three things about a sound: Mid back rounded lax : Mid back unrounded lax vowel.
