Close front compressed vowel
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represents a rounded vowel.
The close front compressed vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. There is no symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound.
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 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.
- Its vowel roundedness is compressed, which means the corners of the mouth are drawn slightly together and the lips may be compressed horizontally, but do not protrude.
Occurs in
- Central Swedish: ut [ʉ̟ːt] or Image:Loudspeaker.png [ʉ̟β̞t], 'out'
The Central Swedish close front vowel is commonly transcribed as [ʉ̟]. It is perhaps a near-front vowel. There is no diacritic in the IPA to indicate compression, but since the Swedish back vowel [u] and Norwegian central vowel [ʉ] are also labially compressed, <ʉ̟> was chosen as an ad hoc transcription.
When the long u in Central Swedish is diphthongized, the offglide is tellingly a bilabial approximant [β̞] rather than a [ɥ]. Note that this contrasts with Swedish close front rounded vowel [y], which when diphthongized has a normally rounded offglide, [yɥ].
Other dialects of Swedish have instead a close central compressed vowel. The close back vowel is also compressed. See close back compressed vowel.
