Close-mid back 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 | |||
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| IPA – text | o |
| IPA – image | Missing image Xsampa-o.png Image:Xsampa-o.png |
| entity | o |
| X-SAMPA | o |
| Kirshenbaum | o |
| Missing image Loudspeaker.png Sound Sound sample? | |
|---|---|
The close-mid 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 o, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is o.
Features
- Its vowel height is close-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between close vowel and a mid vowel.
- 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.
Occurs in
- English: (AuE and NZE) ball [boːl]
- In GA, this vowel occurs as the first part of the diphthong [oʊ], as in hope [ˈhoʊp], go [goʊ].
- In Canadian English, this vowel may occur alone in words like boat during rapid speech.
- French: réseau [ʀeˈzo], 'net'
- German: Kohl [koːl], 'cabbage'
- Spanish: todo [ˈtoðo], 'everything'
- Swedish: åka Missing image
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Sound
[ˈo:ka], 'travel', 'go'
The /o/ French is more close than the /o/ German, the last is more close than the /o/ Spanish. The /o/ German is close-mid (/o/ standard), the Franche is near-close, the Spanish is mid.