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    The (near-)open front rounded vowel, or (near-)low front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound that has not been confirmed to be phonemic in any spoken...
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  • Thumbnail for Open-mid front rounded vowel
    The open-mid front rounded vowel, or low-mid front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...
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  • Thumbnail for Near-open front unrounded vowel
    sound are commonly referred to as "ash". The rounded counterpart of [æ], the near-open front rounded vowel (for which the IPA provides no separate symbol)...
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  • classified as a consonant. Rounded front vowels are often centralized, which means that often they are in fact near-front. Its roundedness is compressed, which...
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  • front-rounded vowel (or "high front rounded vowel") [ʏ], a near-close front rounded vowel (or "near-high ...") [ø], a close-mid front rounded vowel (or...
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  • Thumbnail for Near-close near-front rounded vowel
    The near-close front rounded vowel, or near-high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...
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  • Thumbnail for Close-mid front rounded vowel
    The close-mid front rounded vowel, or high-mid front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...
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  • Thumbnail for Open-mid central rounded vowel
    The open-mid central rounded vowel, or low-mid central rounded vowel, is a vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...
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  • Thumbnail for Open front unrounded vowel
    The open front unrounded vowel, or low front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. It is one of the eight primary cardinal...
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  • Thumbnail for Open back rounded vowel
    The open back rounded vowel, or low back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic...
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  • essentially a type of front vowel; no language is known to contrast front and near-front vowels based on backness alone. Rounded front vowels are typically centralized...
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  • Thumbnail for Close front rounded vowel
    The close front rounded vowel, or high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic...
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  • open vowels with dedicated symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet are: open front unrounded vowel [a] open front rounded vowel [ɶ] open back unrounded...
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    defined for roundedness and that can be used for vowels that are near-open central, near-open near-front, near-open near-back, open-mid central, open central...
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  • phonetics, vowel roundedness is the amount of rounding in the lips during the articulation of a vowel. It is labialization of a vowel. When a rounded vowel is...
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  • trouble playing the files, see Wikipedia Media help. This table lists the vowel letters of the International Phonetic Alphabet. List of consonants Index...
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  • Thumbnail for Cardinal vowels
    of the lips (rounded or unrounded). A cardinal vowel is a vowel sound produced when the tongue is in an extreme position, either front or back, high...
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  • Thumbnail for Open-mid back rounded vowel
    The open-mid back rounded vowel, or low-mid back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...
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  • Gidar and Podoko. A typical feature for these languages is that vowel frontness or roundedness cannot be considered a segmental feature but is instead a suprasegmental...
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  • Thumbnail for Open-mid front unrounded vowel
    The open-mid front unrounded vowel, or low-mid front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...
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    intense is the rounding. However, in some languages, roundedness is independent from backness, such as French and German (with front rounded vowels), most Uralic...
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  • contrasts true-mid vowels with close-mid and open-mid vowels without any difference in other parameters, such as backness or roundedness. Its vowel height is mid...
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  • vowels; the difference between an open front vowel and an open back vowel is equal to the difference between a close front and a close central vowel,...
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  • from both close-mid and open-mid vowels, without differences in other parameters such as backness or roundedness. Its vowel height is mid, which means...
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    tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel. It is rounded, which means that the lips are rounded rather than spread or relaxed. International...
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  • Thumbnail for Open back unrounded vowel
    linear stroke on its left and corresponds to a rounded version of this vowel, the open back rounded vowel. In some languages (such as Azerbaijani, Estonian...
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  • Thumbnail for Close-mid central rounded vowel
    the near-close front rounded vowel and so is sometimes transcribed with the symbol ⟨ʏ⟩ (the symbol for the near-close front rounded vowel). The close-mid...
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  • Thumbnail for Close central rounded vowel
    The close central rounded vowel, or high central rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...
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  • Thumbnail for Vowel diagram
    lips are spread. Vowels can be categorized as rounded or unrounded. Rounded vowels are [u], [ʊ], [o], [ɔ] and the unrounded vowels are [i], [ɪ], [e]...
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  • the degree of roundedness, more rounded and less rounded. An advanced or fronted sound is one that is pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract...
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