Close_back_rounded_vowel Close_back_rounded_vowel

Close back rounded vowel - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Alveolar, Apical, Arched, Assimilated, Back, Bagging, Ballooning, Bent, Bilabial, Bluff
Vowels
front near-front central near-back back
close i • y ɨ • ʉ ɯ • u
near-close ɪ • ʏ ʊ
close-mid e • ø ɘ • ɵ ɤ • o
mid ə
open-mid ɛ • œ ɜ • ɞ ʌ • ɔ
near-open æ ɐ
open a • ɶ ɑ • ɒ
Table of vowels
List of vowels
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IPA - Unicode u
IPA - image Image:Xsampa-u.png
X-SAMPA u
Kirshenbaum u
Sound sample

The close 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 u, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is u. Features of this vowel:

  • Its vowel height is close, which means 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.
  • 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.

This vowel occurs in English, and is the sound represented by the letters oo in boot or food.

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