Editing Mid vowel (section)

==Languages==
Few languages contrast all three heights of mid vowel, because it is rare for a language to distinguish more than four heights of true front or back vowels.

The [[Kensiu language]] spoken in Malaysia and Thailand is highly unusual in that it phonemically contrasts true-mid vowels with close-mid and open-mid vowels without differences in other parameters such as backness or roundedness.

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{| class="wikitable"
|+ Kensiu oral vowels
! scope="col" |
! scope="col" | Front
! scope="col" | Central
! scope="col" | Back
|-
! scope="row" | Close
| {{IPA|i}}  
| {{IPA|ɯ}}
| {{IPA|u}} 
|-
! scope="row" | Near-close
| {{IPA|ɪ}}
| 
|
|-
! scope="row" | Close-mid
| {{IPA|e̝}}  
| {{IPA|ɚ}}
| {{IPA|o̝}}
|-
! scope="row" | Mid
| {{IPA|e}}
| {{IPA|ə}}
| {{IPA|o}}
|-
! scope="row" | Open-mid
| {{IPA|ɛ}}
| {{IPA|ʌ}}
| {{IPA|ɔ}}
|-
! scope="row" | Open
| 
| {{IPA|a}}
|
|-
! scope="row" | Diphthongs
| {{Not a typo|ie}}
| 
|
|}
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{| class="wikitable"
|+ Kensiu nasal vowels
! scope="col" |
! scope="col" | Front
! scope="col" | Central
! scope="col" | Back
|-
! scope="row" | Close
| {{IPA|ĩ}}  
| {{IPA|ɯ̃}}
| {{IPA|ũ}} 
|-
! scope="row" | Near-close
| {{IPA|ɪ̃}} 
| 
|
|-
! scope="row" | Close-mid
| {{IPA|ẽ̝}}  
| 
| {{IPA|õ̝}}
|-
! scope="row" | Mid
| {{IPA|ẽ}} 
| 
| {{IPA|õ}}
|-
! scope="row" | Open-mid
| {{IPA|ɛ̃}}
| {{IPA|ʌ̃}} 
| {{IPA|ɔ̃}}
|-
! scope="row" | Open
| 
| {{IPA|ã}}
|
|-
! scope="row" | Diphthongs
| {{IPA|ĩẽ}}
| 
|
|}
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