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These eight vowels are known as the eight 'primary cardinal vowels', and vowels like these are common in the world's languages. The lip positions can be reversed with the lip position for the corresponding vowel on the opposite side of the front-back dimension, so that e.g. Cardinal 1 can be produced with rounding somewhat similar to that of ...
The vowel systems of most languages can be represented by vowel diagrams. Usually, there is a pattern of even distribution of marks on the chart, a phenomenon that is known as vowel dispersion. For most languages, the vowel system is triangular. Only 10% of languages, including English, have a vowel diagram
The bullets are the cardinal vowel points. (A parallel diagram covers the front and central rounded and back unrounded vowels.) The cells indicate the ranges of articulation that could reasonably be transcribed with those cardinal vowel letters, [i, e, ɛ, a, ɑ, ɔ, o, u, ɨ], and non-cardinal [ə].
English: Cardinal vowels on a vowel chart. A more complex chart (File:Daniel Jones's 18 Cardinal Vowels.svg), made by LiliCharlie, is also available, as is a vowel chart that shows only the primary cardinal vowels (File:Primary cardinal vowels on a vowel chart.svg), which was created by Mr KEBAB.
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Cardinal vowels #1 and #4 [i, a] were adapted by Jones from x-ray photographs of his mouth. Cardinal vowels #2 and #3 [e, ɛ] are approximate. The tongue positions were determined by placing a thin metal chain on Jones' tongue while saying the vowels and then photographing them. The four large dots indicate the highest point of tongue for each ...
Mid central vowel release ̽: Mid-centralized ̝ ˔ Raised ᶿ Voiceless dental fricative release ̩ ̍: Syllabic ̞ ˕ Lowered ˣ: Voiceless velar fricative release ̯ ̑: Non-syllabic ̘ ꭪ Advanced tongue root ʼ: Ejective ˞ Rhoticity ̙ ꭫ Retracted tongue root ͡ ͜ Affricate or double articulation