Open front rounded vowel
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| Edit - 2× | Front | N.-front | Central | N.-back | Back |
| Close | |||||
| Near-close | |||||
| Close-mid | |||||
| Mid | |||||
| Open-mid | |||||
| Near-open | |||||
| Open | |||||
Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.
represents a rounded vowel.
| IPA – number | 312 |
| IPA – text | ɶ |
| IPA – image | Image:Xsampa-amper.png |
| entity | ɶ |
| X-SAMPA | & |
| Kirshenbaum | a. |
| Sound sample ▶(?) | |
|---|---|
The open front 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 ɶ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is &. The symbol ɶ is a small capital OE ligature.
Features
- Its vowel height is open, which means the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.
- 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 rounded, which means that the lips are rounded.
Occurs in
[ɶ] is not confirmed to exist as a phoneme in any language, though a phoneme generally transcribed by this symbol is reported from Bavarian and Austrian dialects of German. However, this German vowel is the rounded equivalent of near-open [æ], not of open [a], and so might be better transcribed as [œ̞]
