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| | Encyclopedia: Close front unrounded vowel |
 | | Its vowel backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant. |  | | It occurs phonemically in almost all languages with three or more vowels, and phonetically it probably occurs in every language. |
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| | english language - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com |
 | | Other less closely related living languages include Dutch, Afrikaans, German and the Scandinavian languages. |  | | A large number of French words were assimilated into Old English, which also lost most of its inflections, resulting in Middle English. |  | | Seaspeak and the related Airspeak and Policespeak, all based on restricted vocabularies, were designed by Edward Johnson in the 1980s to aid international cooperation and communication in specific areas. |
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