/Ee/

Phonetic

[ɛ ~ ɘ ~ ɜ]

English: Translation

Fifth letter in the Boie’nen Alphabet; The Boie’nen vowel /e/ is realized across a front-to-central range from [ɛ] to [ɜ], with [ɘ] as a common central realization. Unlike the English schwa /ə/, this vowel may occur in stressed syllables and functions as a full phonemic vowel.

Semantic Domain

Language and Communication

Grammar

Notes

Fifth letter of the Boie’nen alphabet.

Phoneme: /e/ — a full vowel realized across a front–central range [ɛ ~ ɘ ~ ɜ].

Description:

A phonemic vowel (pepet-type) that may occur in both stressed and unstressed syllables. Unlike English /ə/, it is not reduced and carries full syllabic weight.

Allophony

Primary realizations:

[ɛ] — mid-front (e.g., beteng “pull”, be-ew “heel”)
[ɘ ~ ɜ] — central variants (common neutral realizations)
[ʊ̈], [ɞ̋] — context-driven, coarticulatory variants (limited distribution)

Phonological Status

Phonemic vowel (not a schwa)
Occurs under stress and tone-bearing environments
Quality varies with prosody and surrounding consonants

Contrast

/e/ vs. /i/

keskes vs. kiskis

baneg vs banig

Note

While central in tendency, /e/ does not function as a reduced vowel. Its realizations reflect phonetic spread, not phonemic splitting.

[CF normalized 2026-03]

se-en vs. so-on

po’son vs. pe’sen

ogot vs. eget

ko’ko’ vs. ke’ke’

Source

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