Close-mid back rounded vowel
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| Vowels | |||||
| front | near-front | central | near-back | back | |
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| close | • | • | • | ||
| near-close | • | ||||
| close-mid | • | • | • | ||
| mid | |||||
| open-mid | • | • | • | ||
| near-open | |||||
| open | • | • | |||
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The close-mid 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 , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is o.
Features
- Its vowel height is close-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between close vowel and a mid vowel.
- 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.
Occurs in
- English: (AuE and NZE) ball
- In GA, this vowel occurs as the first part of the diphthong , as in hope , go .
- In Canadian English, this vowel may occur alone in words like boat during rapid speech.
- French: réseau , 'net'
- German: Kohl , 'cabbage'
- Spanish: todo , 'everything'
- Swedish: åka Template:Audio-IPA, 'travel', 'go'
The /o/ French is more close than the /o/ German, the last is more close than the /o/ Spanish. The /o/ German is close-mid (/o/ standard), the Franche is near-close, the Spanish is mid.ko:후설 원순 중고모음