Close back rounded vowel
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Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.
represents a rounded vowel.
| IPA – number | 308 |
| IPA – text | u |
| IPA – image | Image:Xsampa-u.png |
| entity | u |
| X-SAMPA | u |
| Kirshenbaum | u |
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The close back rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is u, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is u.
There is also a close back compressed vowel which contrasts with both the rounded and unrounded close back vowels.
Features
- Its vowel height is close, which means the tongue is positioned as close as possible to the roof of the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
- Its vowel backness is back, which means the tongue is positioned as far back as possible in the mouth in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
- Its vowel roundedness is rounded, which means that the lips are rounded and protrude, and the inner surfaces are exposed.
Occurs in
- Dutch: voet [vuʷt], 'foot'
- English: (RP and GA) boot [bu̟ʷt]. The realization of this vowel in English is typically fronter than the cardinal vowel [u]; in some dialects it can be further forward than [ʉ].
- French: fou [fu], 'crazy'
- German: Fuß [fuːs], 'foot'
- Portuguese: urso [ˈuɾsu], 'bear'
- Romanian: unu [ˈunu], 'one'
- Spanish: cura [ˈkuɾa], 'preach'
- Vietnamese: tu [tū], 'to mediate'
