Editing Open-mid central rounded vowel (section)

{{Short description|Vowel sound represented by ⟨ɞ⟩ in IPA}}
{{Infobox IPA
|ipa symbol=ɞ
|ipa number=395
|decimal=606
|x-sampa=3\
|kirshenbaum=O"
|imagefile=IPA Unicode 0x025E.svg
|imagesize=150px
|braille=236
|braille2=ar
}}
{{IPA vowels|class=floatright}}
[[File:Spectrogram of open-mid central rounded vowel (IPA ɞ).png|thumb|Spectrogram of {{IPA|[ɞ]}}]]

The '''open-mid central rounded vowel''', or '''low-mid central rounded vowel''',<ref>{{Vowel terminology}}</ref> is a [[vowel]] sound, used in some [[Speech communication|spoken]] [[language]]s. The symbol in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] that represents this sound is {{angbr IPA|ɞ}}, and the equivalent [[X-SAMPA]] symbol is <code>3\</code>. The symbol is called ''closed reversed [[epsilon]]''. It was added to the IPA in 1993; before that, this vowel was transcribed {{angbr IPA|ɔ̈}}.

IPA charts were first published with this vowel transcribed as a closed epsilon, {{angbr IPA|ʚ}} (that is, a closed variant of {{angbr IPA|ɛ}}, much as the high-mid vowel letter {{angbr IPA|ɵ}} is a closed variant of {{angbr IPA|e}}), and this variant made its way into Unicode as {{unichar|029a|LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED OPEN E}}. The IPA charts were later changed to the current closed reversed epsilon {{angbr IPA|ɞ}}, and this was adopted into Unicode as {{unichar|025e|LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E}}.<!--It's widely reported that the initial letter, the closed epsilon, was an error on the part of the IPA. However, the sources that the IPA based the letter on did indeed use that form. It's possible that the only error was a later assumption that the IPA had made an error, or it may simply be that people later decided they preferred a different form of the letter. It's difficult to find sources on this written by people who actually know what they're talking about, rather than just repeating a chain of unsubstantiated claims, so for WP it's best (for now at least) to not call either form an 'error'.-->