Close front rounded vowel
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| Edit - 2× | Front | N.-front | Central | N.-back | Back |
| Close | |||||
| Near-close | |||||
| Close-mid | |||||
| Mid | |||||
| Open-mid | |||||
| Near-open | |||||
| Open | |||||
Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.
See also: IPA, Consonantsrepresents a rounded vowel.
| IPA – number | 309 |
| IPA – text | y |
| IPA – image |  |
| Entity | y |
| X-SAMPA | y |
| Kirshenbaum | y |
| 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.
There is also a close front compressed vowel, commonly transcribed as [ʉ̟], which contrasts with both the rounded and unrounded close front vowels.
[edit] 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 and protrude, and the inner surfaces are exposed.
[edit] Occurs in
- English: food [fyd] in Scottish and Northern Irish English.
- Azeri: güllə [ɟylˈlæ], "bullet"
- Dutch: fuut [fyːt], "grebe"
- Finnish: yksi ['yksi], "one"
- French: chute [ʃyt], "fall"
- German: Blüte [blyˈte], "blossom"
- Hungarian: tű [tyː], "pin"
- Norwegian: syd [syːd], "south"
- Swedish: yla [yɥla] , "to howl"
- Turkish: güneş [ɟyˈneʃ], "sun"
