Close-mid central rounded vowel

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Close-mid central rounded vowel

The close-mid central rounded vowel is a type of vowel

Vowel

In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language, such as English ah! or oh! , pronounced with an open vocal tract so that there is no build-up of air pressure at any point above the glottis....
sound, used in some spoken language

Language

A language is a form of symbol communication in which elements are combined to represents something other than themselves. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon....
s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet

International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet "The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic....
that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA

X-SAMPA

The Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at the University of London....
symbol is 8. The symbol is a lowercase barred letter o, and should not be confused with the Greek letter

Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th century BC or early 8th century BCE....
theta

Theta

Theta is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 9....
, which in IPA corresponds to a consonant sound, the voiceless dental fricative

Voiceless dental fricative

The voiceless dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is T....
.

The symbol for the close-mid central unrounded vowel may also be used with a lowering diacritic , to denote the mid central

Mid central vowel

The mid central vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is @....
rounded vowel.

The character has been used in several Latin-derived alphabets such as the one for Janalif, but in that language it denotes a different sound than it does in the IPA.

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The close-mid central rounded vowel is a type of vowel

Vowel

Language

International Phonetic Alphabet

X-SAMPA

Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th century BC or early 8th century BCE....
theta

Theta

Voiceless dental fricative

Mid central vowel

Oe (Cyrillic)

The Cyrillic letter Oe or Barred O is an O with a horizontal line through it. Its ISO 9 transliteration is .Despite having a similar shape, it is neither related to the letter Theta of the Greek alphabet nor the archaic Cyrillic alphabet letter Fita ....
. The Unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate Character expressed in most of the world's writing systems....
number is U+019F, and the symbol is called "LATIN LETTER O WITH MIDDLE TILDE".

Features

Features of this vowel:

Its vowel height is close-mid
Close-mid vowel

A close-mid vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a close-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned two-thirds of the way from a close vowel to a mid vowel....
, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between close vowel
Close vowel

A close vowel is a type of vowel sound used in many spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a close vowel is that 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....
and a mid vowel
Mid vowel

A mid vowel is a vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned mid-way between an open vowel and a close vowel....
.
Its vowel backness is central
Central vowel

A central vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a central vowel is that the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel....
, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel
Front vowel

A front vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a front vowel is that the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant....
and a back vowel
Back vowel

A back vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a back vowel is that the tongue is positioned as far back 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.

Occurrence

Language		Word	Meaning	Notes
Chinese Chinese language Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....	Cantonese	/	'to go out'	See Standard Cantonese Standard Cantonese Standard Cantonese, or Guangzhou dialect, is the prestige dialect of Cantonese language. It is used in Hong Kong and Macau as the spoken language of government and instruction in the schools....
English English language English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...	Australian Australian English Australian English is the form of the English language spoken in Australia....		'bird'	See Australian English phonology Australian English phonology Australian English is a Rhotic and non-rhotic accents variety of English language spoken by most native-born Australians. Phonologically, it is one of the most regionally homogeneous language varieties in the world....
Swedish Swedish language Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....			'dumb'
Toda Toda language Toda is a Dravidian languages well known for its many fricative consonant and trill consonant. It is spoken by the Toda people, a population of about one thousand who live in the Nilgiris of southern India....			'name'

The Swedish is endolabial. The type of rounding of in other languages, or whether there is even a difference, is not clear.

Close-mid central rounded vowel

Features

Occurrence

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