e [e~ɛ]

Mid Front Vowel

North Slavey, Deline

High and low tone: é [é~ɛ́], e [e~ɛ]

1. shégeye [ʃékeje]  -  Speaker: SP6

An example with three instances of e [e~ɛ]; the first carries high tone, while the second two carry low tone. The mid front vowel is the most common vowel in the dataset, and is also the most common prefix vowel, as well as being the most dispersed vowel in the vowel space.

2018-06-19

High and low tone, oral and nasalized:

2. denekw’ęnę́ [tɛnekw’ɛ̃nɛ̃̀] "leg"  -  Speaker: SP5

This example contains all short variants of the mid front vowel. All but one of these vowels are transcribed [ɛ], which is a lower variant of [e]. 

2018-06-19