Close-mid 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	ø
IPA – image	Missing image Xsampa-2.png Image:Xsampa-2.png
entity	ø
X-SAMPA	2
Kirshenbaum	Y
Missing image Loudspeaker.png Sound  Sound sample?

The close-mid 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 ø, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 2. The symbol ø is a lowercase letter o with a diagonal stroke through it, derived from the Danish, Faroese, and Norwegian alphabets, which also use this symbol to represent this sound.

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 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

• Danish: købe [køːbə], 'buy'
• Finnish rölli [rølli], 'common bent'
• French: peu [pø], 'few'
• German: schön [ʃøːn], 'beautiful'
• Hungarian: nő [nøː], 'women'
• Swedish: öl Missing image
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  Sound
  
   [øːl], 'beer'
• Turkish: göz [gʲøz], 'eye'

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