Close central rounded vowel - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Alveolar, Apical, Arch, Assimilated, Average, Axial, Back, Banner, Basal, Basic, Bedrock, Bilabial, Capital, Cardinal, Center

	front	near-front	central	near-back	back
Vowels

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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Sound sample
IPA - Unicode	ʉ
IPA - image
X-SAMPA	`}`
Kirshenbaum	`u"`

The close 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 ʉ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is }. The IPA symbol is the letter u with a horizontal bar. Both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as "barred-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 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.

Example Usage of central
	MatthiasHeil: Please check the countdown timer on http://www.edchat.org/ - not sure it's working in time zones other than central Europe... - Thx! #edchat
	Witty_Hatter: Watching stand up on comedy central
	saathvi: Is India Headed for Inflation? - International Trader - Asia ...: The central bank is also worried about rising.. http://bit.ly/4tjTfz

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Close central rounded vowel - Definition and Overview

Example Usage of central