- Close-mid front rounded vowel
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Close-mid front rounded vowel ø Image IPA number 310 Encoding Entity (decimal) ø
Unicode (hex) U+00F8 X-SAMPA 2
Kirshenbaum Y
Sound
The close-mid front rounded vowel, or high-mid 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 ø, a lowercase letter o with a diagonal stroke through it, derived from the Danish, Norwegian and Faroese alphabets which use the letter to represent this sound. The symbol is commonly referred to as "o, slash" in English.
The IPA prefers terms "close" and "open" for vowels, and the name of the article follows this. However, a large number of linguists, perhaps a majority, prefer the terms "high" and "low", and these are the only terms found in introductory textbooks on phonetics such as those by Peter Ladefoged.
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Features
IPA vowel chart Front Near-front Central Near-back Back Close Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Paired vowels are: unrounded • rounded This table contains phonetic symbols. They may not display correctly in some browsers (Help).
IPA help • IPA key • chart • chart with audio • view- Its vowel height is close-mid, also known as high-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a close vowel (a high vowel) and a mid vowel.
- 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 that the margins of the lips are tense and drawn together in such a way that the inner surfaces are not exposed.
Occurrence
Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Chinese Wu 走/tseu [tsøː] 'walk' Danish købe [ˈkøːb̥ə] 'buy' See Danish phonology Dutch keuken [køːkə(n)] 'kitchen' In the north of the Netherlands usually diphthongized to [øʏ]. See Dutch phonology Estonian köök [køːk] 'kitchen' Faroese øl [øːl] 'beer' Finnish tyttö [tytːø] 'girl' See Finnish phonology French[1] peu [pø] 'few' See French phonology German schön [ʃøːn] 'beautiful' See German phonology Hungarian[2] nő [nøː] 'woman' See Hungarian phonology Korean 쇠 soe [søː] 'iron' May be diphthongized to [we] by younger speakers. See Korean phonology Lombard Western coeur [køːr] 'heart' Also written ⟨ö⟩, particularly in Switzerland and Italy Ngwe Mmockngie dialect [nøɣə̀] 'sun' Norwegian søt [søːt] 'sweet' See Norwegian phonology Rotuman mösʻạki [møːsʔɔki] 'to put to bed' Swedish öl [øːl] (help·info) 'beer' See Swedish phonology References
- ^ Fougeron & Smith (1993:73)
- ^ Szende (1994:92)
Bibliography
- Iivonen, Antti; Harnud, Huhe (2005), "Acoustical comparison of the monophthong systems in Finnish, Mongolian and Udmurt", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 35 (1): 59–71, doi:10.1017/S002510030500191X
- Fougeron, Cecile; Smith, Caroline L (1993), "Illustrations of the IPA:French", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 23 (2): 73–76
- Szende, Tamás (1994), "Illustrations of the IPA:Hungarian", Journal of the International Phonetic Alphabet 24 (2): 91–94
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