Close front rounded vowel
| 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 | |||||
| IPA – text | y |
| IPA – image | Missing image Xsampa-y.png Image:Xsampa-y.png |
| entity | y |
| X-SAMPA | y |
| Kirshenbaum | y |
| Missing image Loudspeaker.png Sound Sound sample? | |
|---|---|
The close 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 y, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is y.
Features
- 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 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 rounded, which means that the lips are rounded.
Occurs in
- Finnish: yksi ['yksi], 'one'
- French: chute [ʃyt], 'fall'
- German: Gefühl [gəˈfyːl], 'feeling'
- Hungarian: tű [tyː], 'pin'
- Swedish: yla Missing image
Loudspeaker.png
Sound
[ˈˈy:ʲla], 'howl' - Turkish: güneş [gʲyˈneʃ], 'sun'