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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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