| Ipa Symbol: | ɤ |
| Ipa Number: | 315 |
| Decimal: | 612 |
| Xsampa: | 7 |
| Kirshenbaum: | o- |
| Imagefile: | IPA Unicode 0x0264.svg |
| Braille: | 256 |
| Braille2: | o |
pronounced as /vowels/
The close-mid back unrounded vowel, or high-mid back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Its symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is (IPA|ɤ), called "ram's horn." This symbol is distinct from the symbol for the voiced velar fricative, (IPA|ɣ), which has a descender, but some texts[1] use this symbol for the voiced velar fricative.
Before the 1989 IPA Convention, the symbol for the close-mid back unrounded vowel was, sometimes called "baby gamma", which has a flat top; this symbol was in turn derived from and replaced the inverted small capital A, ⟨Ɐ⟩, that represented the sound before the 1928 revision to the IPA.[2] The symbol was ultimately revised to be, "ram's horn", with a rounded top, in order to better differentiate it from the Latin gamma pronounced as /link/.[3]
Unicode provides, but in some fonts this character may appear as a "baby gamma" instead. The superscript IPA version is .[4]
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aklanon | sa'''e'''amat | pronounced as /[saɤamat]/ | 'thanks' | |||
| Bashkir | Bashkir: [[Bashkir_language#Orthography|туғ'''ы'''ҙ]]/Bashkir: [[Bashkir_language#Orthography|tuğ'''ï'''ð]] | 'nine' | ||||
| Biak | ores | pronounced as /[ɤres]/ | 'stand' | |||
| Chinese | Mandarin | [[Chinese characters| 餓]]/[[Pinyin|'''è''']] | pronounced as /[ɤ˥˩]/ | 'hungry' | ||
| English | Cape Flats | foot | pronounced as /[fɤt]/ | 'foot' | Possible realization of pronounced as //ʊ//; may be pronounced as /link/ or pronounced as /link/ instead. See South African English phonology | |
| South African | Possible realization of pronounced as //ʊ//; may be a weakly rounded pronounced as /link/ instead. See South African English phonology | |||||
| Geordie | Usual realization of pronounced as //ʊ//. See Geordie phonology | |||||
| Birmingham and The Black Country | Corresponds to pronounced as //ʊ// in most other dialects.[5] | |||||
| Estonian | Estonian: [[Estonian alphabet|k'''õ'''rv]] | pronounced as /[kɤrv]/ | 'ear' | Can be close-mid central pronounced as /link/ or close back pronounced as /link/ instead, depending on the speaker. See Estonian phonology | ||
| Gayo | Gayo: kul'''e''' | pronounced as /[kuˈlɤː]/ | 'tiger' | Close-mid or mid; one of the possible allophones of pronounced as //ə//. | ||
| Iaai | löö | pronounced as /[lɤː]/ | 'banana leaf' | |||
| Irish | Ulster | Irish: [[Irish orthography|'''U'''ladh]] | pronounced as /[ɤl̪ˠu]/ | 'Ulster' | See Irish phonology | |
| Kaingang | mo | pronounced as /[ˈᵐbɤ]/ | 'tail' | Varies between back pronounced as /[ɤ]/ and central pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Korean | Gyeongsang dialect | Korean: [[Hangul|거기]]/Korean: [[Revised Romanization of Korean|g'''eo'''gi]] | pronounced as /[ˈkɤ̘ɡɪ]/ | 'there' | See Korean phonology | |
| Marathi | मत | pronounced as /[mɤːt̪]/ | 'opinion' | See Marathi phonology | ||
| Northern Tiwa | Taos dialect | mânpəumán | pronounced as /[ˌmã̀ˑˈpɤ̄u̯mã̄]/ | 'it was squeezed' | May be central pronounced as /link/ instead. See Taos phonology | |
| Samogitian | Õlgs | pronounced as /[ˈɤːl̪ˠgs]/ | 'long' | May be central pronounced as /link/ instead. | ||
| Scottish Gaelic | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: [[Scottish Gaelic alphabet|d'''oi'''rbh]] | pronounced as /[d̪̊ɤɾʲɤv]/ | 'difficult' | |||
| Rusyn | Lemko variety | [t͡ɕaˈsɤ] | 'times' | Used only in place of etymological praslavic sound *y[6] | ||
| Prešov variety | ||||||
| Thai | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: [[Thai alphabet|'''เ'''ธ'''อ''']]/thoe | pronounced as /[tʰɤː]/ | 'you' | |||
| Ukrainian | [7] | [t͡ɕaˈsɤ] | 'times' | Used in some of Carpathian dialects in place of etymological praslavic sound *y | ||
| Transcarpathian dialect[8] | ||||||
| Yaqay | kh'''o'''r'''o''' | pronounced as /[xɤrɤ]/ | 'frog' | Uncommon pronunciation of pronounced as //o//. | ||
pronounced as /navigation/