Mid back rounded vowel
Mid back rounded vowel | |
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o | |
o̞ | |
ɔ̝ | |
IPA number | 307 430 |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) |
o̞ |
Unicode (hex) | U+006F U+031E |
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Sound | |
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The mid back rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. While there is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the exact mid back rounded vowel between close-mid [o] and open-mid [ɔ], it is normally written ⟨o⟩. If precision is desired, diacritics may be used, such as ⟨o̞⟩ or ⟨ɔ̝⟩, the former being more common. A non-IPA letter ⟨ⱺ⟩ is also found.
Just because a language has only one non-close non-open back vowel, it still may not be a true-mid vowel. Sulawesi, Indonesia, has a language, Tukang Besi with a close-mid [o], and another language in Indonesia, in the Maluku Islands, Taba, has an open-mid [ɔ]; in both languages, there is no contrast with another mid (true-mid or close-mid) vowel.
Kensiu in Malaysia and Thailand is highly unusual in that it contrasts true-mid vowels with close-mid and open-mid vowels without differences in other parameters such as backness or roundedness.
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- Its vowel height is mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a close vowel and an open vowel.
- Its vowel backness is back, which means the tongue is positioned as far back as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant. Note that unrounded back vowels tend to be centralized, which means that often they are in fact near-back.
- Its roundedness is protruded, which means that the corners of the lips are drawn together, and the inner surfaces exposed.
Occurrence
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Arabic | Hejazi[1] | فوق | [fo̞ːg] | 'up' | Typically transcribed in IPA as ⟨oː⟩. |
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic | ho̞ga | [ho̞ːɡa] | 'steam' | ||
Bavarian | Amstetten dialect[2] | ||||
Catalan | Modern Algherese[3] | soc | [ˈso̞k] | 'clog' | /ɔ/ and /o/ merge into [o̞] in these dialects. See Catalan phonology |
Northern[3] | |||||
Valencian[4] | cançó | [kanˈso̞] | 'song' | Allophone of final stressed /o/. Typically transcribed in IPA as ⟨o⟩. | |
Chinese | Shanghainese[5] | [kö̞¹] | 'tall' | Near-back. Realization of /ɔ/ in open syllables and /ʊ/ in closed syllables.[5] | |
Czech[6][7] | oko | [ˈo̞ko̞] | 'eye' | In Bohemian Czech, the backness varies between back and near-back, whereas the height varies between mid [o̞] and close-mid [o].[6] See Czech phonology | |
Danish | Standard[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] | monolog | [mo̞no̞ˈlo̞ːˀ] | 'monologue' | Described variously as mid back,[11][12] mid near-back.[9][10][14] and slightly lowered mid back.[13] Typically transcribed in IPA as ⟨ɔ(ː)⟩. See Danish phonology |
Dutch | Amsterdam[15] | och | [o̞χ] | 'alas' | Corresponds to open-mid [ɔˁ] in standard Dutch. See Dutch phonology |
Hasselt | [o̞x] | ||||
Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect[16] | mot | [mo̞t] | 'well' | Typically transcribed in IPA as ⟨ɔ⟩. See Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect phonology | |
English | Cardiff[17] | thought | [θo̞ːt] | 'thought' | Some speakers, for others it is [ʌ̈ː]. See English phonology |
Cultivated South African[18] | Close-mid [oː] for other speakers. | ||||
Geordie[19] | Typically transcribed in IPA as ⟨ɔː⟩. | ||||
Scouse[20] | |||||
Received Pronunciation[21] | May be as open as [ɔː] for older speakers, and is most often transcribed as such. See English phonology | ||||
Estuary[22] | coat | [kʰo̟ːʔ] | 'coat' | Rare; commonly a diphthong.[22] It corresponds to /əʊ/ in other British dialects. See English phonology | |
Yorkshire[23] | [kʰo̟t] | Corresponds to /əʊ/ in other British dialects. See English phonology | |||
Estonian[24] | tool | [to̞ːlʲ] | 'chair' | See Estonian phonology | |
Finnish[25][26] | kello | [ˈke̞llo̞] | 'clock' | See Finnish phonology | |
German | Bernese dialect[27] | Òve | [ˈo̞v̥ə] | 'oven' | Typically transcribed in IPA as ⟨ɔ⟩. See Bernese German phonology |
Standard[28] | Pavillon | [ˈpʰävɪljõ̞] | 'pavilion' | Nasalized.[28] Present only in loanwords. See German phonology | |
Zurich dialect[29] | do | [d̥o̞] | 'so' | Allophone of /o/; reported to occur only in this word.[29] | |
Greek | ωκεανός okeanós | [o̞ˌce̞ɐˈno̞s] | 'ocean' | See Modern Greek phonology | |
Hebrew[30] | שלום | [ʃäˈlo̞m] | 'peace' | Hebrew vowels are not shown in the script. See Niqqud and Modern Hebrew phonology | |
Ibibio[31] | [dó̞] | 'there' | |||
Inuit | West Greenlandic[32] | Allophone of /u/ before and especially between uvulars.[32] See Inuit phonology | |||
Italian | Piedmont | parola | [päˈro̞ːlä] | 'word' | Corresponds to /ɔ/ and /o/ in standard Italian. See Italian phonology |
Japanese[33] | 子/ko | [ko̞] | 'child' | See Japanese phonology | |
Korean[34] | 보리/bori | [po̞ˈɾi] | 'barley' | See Korean phonology | |
Limburgish | Hasselt dialect[35] | mok | [mo̞k] | 'mug' | Typically transcribed IPA as ⟨ɔ⟩.[35] |
Norwegian | Standard Eastern[36] | lov | [lo̞ːʋ] | 'law' | May be diphthongized to [o̞ə̯]. See Norwegian phonology |
Portuguese | Brazilian | pororoca | [po̞ɾo̞ˈɾɔ̞kɐ] | 'pororoca' | Unstressed vowel.[37] See Portuguese phonology |
Romanian | copil | [ko̞ˈpil] | 'child' | See Romanian phonology | |
Russian[38] | сухой | [s̪ʊˈxo̞j] | 'dry' | See Russian phonology | |
Serbo-Croatian[39] | čvȏr / чво̑р | [t͡ʃʋô̞ːr] | 'knot' | See Serbo-Croatian phonology | |
Shipibo[40] | ? | [ˈkö̞ni̞] | 'eel' | Near-back.[40] | |
Slovak | Standard[41][42][43] | ohúriť | [ˈo̞ɦʊːrɪc̟] | 'to stun' | Backness varies between back and near-back.[43] See Slovak phonology |
Slovene[44] | oglas | [o̞ˈɡlá̠s̪] | 'advertisement' | Unstressed vowel,[44] as well as an allophone of /o/ before /ʋ/ when a vowel does not follow within the same word.[45] See Slovene phonology | |
Spanish[46] | todo | [ˈt̪o̞ð̞o̞] | 'all' | See Spanish phonology | |
Tera[47] | zo | [zo̞ː] | 'rope' | ||
Turkish[48][49] | kol | [kʰo̞ɫ] | 'arm' | See Turkish phonology | |
Ukrainian | поїзд | [ˈpo̞jiz̪d̪] | 'train' | See Ukrainian phonology | |
Võro | Võro | [ˈvɤ̞ro̞] | 'Võro' | ||
Zapotec | Tilquiapan[50] | do | [d̪o̞] | 'corn tassel' |
Notes
- ↑ Jarrah, Mohamed Ali Saleh (1993)
- ↑ Traunmüller (1982), cited in Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996:290)
- 1 2 Recasens (1996:59-60)
- ↑ Saborit (2009:11)
- 1 2 Chen & Gussenhoven (2015:328)
- 1 2 Dankovičová (1999:72)
- ↑ Šimáčková, Podlipský & Chládková (2012:228–230)
- ↑ Grønnum (1996:6)
- 1 2 Grønnum (1998:100)
- 1 2 Grønnum (2005:268)
- 1 2 Grønnum (2003)
- 1 2 Ladefoged & Johnson (2010:227)
- 1 2 Allan, Holmes & Lundskær-Nielsen (2000:17)
- 1 2 Basbøll (2005:47)
- ↑ Collins & Mees (2003:132)
- ↑ Peters (2010:241)
- ↑ Coupland (1990:95)
- ↑ Lass (2002:116)
- ↑ Watt & Allen (2003:268)
- ↑ Watson (2007:357)
- ↑ Roach (2004:242)
- 1 2 Przedlacka (2001:44)
- ↑ Roca & Johnson (1999:180)
- ↑ Asu & Teras (2009:368)
- ↑ Iivonen & Harnud (2005:60, 66)
- ↑ Suomi, Toivanen & Ylitalo (2008:21)
- ↑ Marti (1985:?)
- 1 2 Mangold (2005:37)
- 1 2 Fleischer & Schmid (2006:251)
- ↑ Laufer (1999:98)
- ↑ Urua (2004:106)
- 1 2 Fortescue (1990), p. 317.
- ↑ Okada (1991:94)
- ↑ Lee (1999:121)
- 1 2 Peters (2006), p. 119.
- ↑ Vanvik (1979:13)
- ↑ Corresponds to /ɔ/, or /u/ (where Brazilian dialects have [u ~ ʊ ~ o̞]), in other national variants. May be lowered to [ɔ̝ ~ ɔ] in amazofonia, nordestino, mineiro (MG) and fluminense (RJ) if not nasalized ([õ̞] does not corresponds to phoneme /õ/), or be raised and merged to /o/ in sulista, paulistano, caipira and sertanejo.
- ↑ Jones & Ward (1969:56)
- ↑ Landau et al. (1999:67)
- 1 2 Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001:282)
- ↑ Hanulíková & Hamann (2010:375)
- ↑ Kráľ (1988:92)
- 1 2 Pavlík (2004:94–95)
- 1 2 Tatjana Srebot-Rejec. "On the vowel system in present-day Slovene" (PDF).
- ↑ Šuštaršič, Komar & Petek (1999:138)
- ↑ Martínez-Celdrán, Fernández-Planas & Carrera-Sabaté (2003:256)
- ↑ Tench (2007:230)
- ↑ Zimmer & Orgun (1999:155)
- ↑ Göksel & Kerslake (2005:11)
- ↑ Merrill (2008:109)
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