Open-mid central rounded vowel
| Open-mid central rounded vowel | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ɞ | |||
| ɔ̈ | |||
| IPA number | 395 | ||
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| Entity (decimal) |
ɞ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+025E | ||
| X-SAMPA |
3\ | ||
| Kirshenbaum |
O" | ||
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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 Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɞ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 3\. The symbol is called closed reversed epsilon. It was added to the IPA in 1993; before that, this vowel was transcribed ⟨ɔ̈⟩.
The IPA prefers terms "close" and "open" for vowels, and the name of the article follows this. However, a large number of linguists, perhaps a majority, prefer the terms "high" and "low".
Due to either typographic or design error, IPA charts were published with this vowel transcribed as a closed epsilon, ⟨ʚ⟩, and this graphic variant made its way into Unicode as U+029A ʚ LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED OPEN E. The form ⟨ɞ⟩ (U+025E ɞ LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E) is considered correct.
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- Its vowel height is open-mid, also known as low-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between an open vowel (a low 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.
- It's rounded, which means that the lips are rounded rather than spread or relaxed.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | Irish[1] | but | [bɞθ̠] | 'but' | Corresponds to [ʌ] in other varieties. See English phonology |
| New Zealand[2] | not | [nɞʔt] | 'not' | Possible realization of /ɒ/.[2] | |
| German | Standard[3] | Parfum | [pʰäʁˈfɞ̃ː] | 'perfume' | Nasalized, somewhat fronted and lowered.[3] Most often transcribed in IPA as ⟨œ̃(ː)⟩. Present only in loanwords. See German phonology |
| Icelandic[4][5][6] | öld | [ɞl̪t̪] | 'age' | Most often transcribed in IPA as ⟨œ⟩. Often diphthongized to [ɵɞ] when long. See Icelandic phonology | |
| Irish | tomhail | [tɞːlʲ] | 'consume' (imp.) | See Irish phonology | |
| Kashubian | ptôch | [ptɞx] | 'bird' | ||
| Navajo[7] | tsosts’id | [tsʰɞstsʼɪt] | 'seven' | See Navajo phonology | |
| Northern Tiwa | Taos dialect | [ʔãˌtʃʊt̚ːˈʔuɞnbɑ] | 'his-garment-around' | Allophone of /ɑ/. See Taos phonology | |
| Norwegian | Stavangersk[8] | topp | [tʰɞpː] | 'top' | See Norwegian phonology |
| Poitevin | o doune | [ɞ dun] | 'he gives' | ||
| Somali | keenaysaa | [keːnɞjsɑː] | 'she brings' | See Somali phonology | |
| West Frisian | Southwestern dialects[9] | Corresponds to [wa] in other dialects.[9] See West Frisian phonology | |||
References
- ↑ Wells (1982:422)
- 1 2 Bauer et al. (2007:98)
- 1 2 Mangold (2005:37)
- ↑ Einarsson (1945:10), cited in Gussmann (2011:73)
- ↑ Haugen (1958:65)
- ↑ "Icelandic Phonetic Transcription.PDF - ptg_ice.pdf" (PDF). Retrieved 23 March 2015.
- ↑ McDonough, Ladefoged & George (1993). Note that the authors gave a narrow transcription of [ɵ], though at the time the IPA had only this one symbol for a mid central rounded vowel, and it is clear from the discussion and formant charts that this vowel a centralized open-mid vowel.
- ↑ Vanvik (1979:17)
- 1 2 Hoekstra (2003:202), citing Hof (1933:14)
Bibliography
- Árnason, Kristján (2011), The Phonology of Icelandic and Faroese, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-922931-4
- Bauer, Laurie; Warren, Paul; Bardsley, Dianne; Kennedy, Marianna; Major, George (2007), "New Zealand English", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 37 (1): 97–102, doi:10.1017/S0025100306002830
- Einarsson, Stefán (1945), Icelandic. Grammar texts glossary., Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, ISBN 978-0801863578
- Gussmann, Edmund (2011). "Getting your head around: the vowel system of Modern Icelandic" (PDF). Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia 12: 71–90. ISBN 978-83-232-2296-5.
- Haugen, Einar (1958). "The Phonemics of Modern Icelandic". Language 34 (1): 55–88. doi:10.2307/411276. JSTOR 411276.
- Hoekstra, Jarich (2003), "Frisian. Standardization in progress of a language in decay", Germanic Standardizations. Past to Present (PDF) 18, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 193–209, ISBN 978-90-272-1856-8
- Hof, Jan Jelles (1933), Friesche Dialectgeographie (PDF), The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff
- Mangold, Max (2005), Das Aussprachewörterbuch, Duden, ISBN 978-3411040667
- McDonough, Joyce; Ladefoged, Peter; George, Helen (1993), "Navajo Vowels and Phonetic Universal Tendencies", UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, Fieldwork Studies of Targeted Languages 84: 143–150
- Vanvik, Arne (1979), Norsk fonetik, Oslo: Universitetet i Oslo, ISBN 82-990584-0-6
- Wells, John C. (1982), Accents of English, II: The British Isles, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-28541-0
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