Open-mid central 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.
The open-mid central 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 ɞ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 3\. The symbol is called closed reversed epsilon.
Due to either a typographic or design error, IPA charts were published with this vowel transcribed as a closed epsilon, <ʚ>, and this graphic variant made its way into Unicode. The form <ɞ> is considered correct.
[edit] Features
- Its vowel height is open-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between an open vowel and a mid vowel.
- Its vowel backness is central, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.
- Its vowel roundedness is rounded, which means that the lips are rounded.
[edit] Occurs in
| IPA – number | 395 |
| IPA – text | ɞ |
| IPA – image |  |
| Entity | ɞ |
| X-SAMPA | 3\ |
| Kirshenbaum | O" |
| Sound sample | |
|---|---|
- Irish: tomhail [tɞ̜ːlʲ], "consume!" (slightly rounded)
- Mainland Scandinavian (dialectal): gott/godt [gɞtː] "good (adj. neut.)"
