Close-mid central 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	ɵ
IPA – image	Missing image Xsampa-8.png Image:Xsampa-8.png
entity	ɵ
X-SAMPA	8
Kirshenbaum	@.<umd>
Missing image Loudspeaker.png Sound  Sound sample?

The close-mid 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 ɵ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 8. The symbol ɵ is a lowercase barred letter o, and should not be confused with the Greek letter theta (θ), which in IPA corresponds to a consonant sound, the voiceless dental fricative.

Features

Features of this vowel:

• Its vowel height is close-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between close vowel and a mid vowel.
• 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.

Occurs in

• Swedish: ull Missing image
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  Sound
  
   [ɵlː], 'wool' (material)

See also: Close-mid central rounded vowel, Back vowel, Central vowel, Close-mid back rounded vowel