Close-mid central unrounded vowel Close-mid central unrounded vowel The close-mid central unrounded vowel, or high-mid central unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . This is a mirrored letter e, and should not be confused with the schwa , which is a turned e. It was added to the IPA in 1993; before that, this vowel was transcribed (Latin small letter e with umlaut, not Cyrillic small letter yo). Certain older sources transcribe this vowel . The letter may be used with a lowering diacritic ,
Thematic vowel these languages as well. While Old English still contrasted "vowel stems" (thematic) and "consonant stems" (athematic), this distinction is no longer a meaningful one in Modern English, and other languages whose morphology has been drastically simplified by analogy. In the term "thematic vowel", "theme" refers to the stem of a word. For example, in the Ancient Greek verb ("témnō") 'cut', "tem-" is the root, and "temn-" is the stem or theme for the present tense. Hence, "thematic vowel" loosely means "stem vowel". Thematic vowel In Indo-European studies, a thematic vowel or theme vowel is the vowel or from ablaut placed