| Ipa Symbol: | ɵ |
| Ipa Number: | 323 |
| Decimal: | 629 |
| X-Sampa: | 8 |
| Kirshenbaum: | @. |
| Imagefile: | IPA Unicode 0x0275.svg |
| Braille: | 356 |
| Braille2: | o |
pronounced as /vowels/
The close-mid central rounded vowel, or high-mid central rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (IPA|ɵ), a lowercase barred letter o. The value was specified only in 1993; until then, (IPA|ɵ) represented the mid central rounded vowel pronounced as /[ə̹]/.
The character ɵ has been used in several Latin-derived alphabets such as the one for Yañalif but then denotes a sound that is different from that of the IPA. The character is homographic with Cyrillic Ө. The Unicode code point is .
This vowel occurs in Cantonese, Dutch, French, Russian and Swedish as well as in a number of English dialects as a realization of pronounced as //ʊ// (as in foot), pronounced as //ɜː// (as in nurse) or pronounced as //oʊ// (as in goat).
This sound rarely contrasts with the near-close front rounded vowel and so is sometimes transcribed with the symbol (IPA|ʏ) (the symbol for the near-close front rounded vowel).
The close-mid central protruded vowel is typically transcribed in IPA simply as (IPA|ɵ), and that is the convention used in this article. As there is no dedicated diacritic for protrusion in the IPA, symbol for the close central rounded vowel with an old diacritic for labialization, (IPA| ̫), can be used as an ad hoc symbol (IPA|ɵ̫) for the close central protruded vowel. Another possible transcription is (IPA|ɵʷ) or (IPA|ɘʷ) (a close central vowel modified by endolabialization), but this could be misread as a diphthong.
Because central rounded vowels are assumed to have protrusion, and few descriptions cover the distinction, some of the following may actually have compression.
| Language | Word | Meaning | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asturian | Some Western dialects[1] | Assamese: fu'''ö'''ra | pronounced as /[ˈfwɵɾɐ]/ | 'outside' | Realization of (o) in the diphthong (uo). May also be realized as pronounced as /link/ or pronounced as /link/. |
| Azerbaijani: [[Azerbaijani alphabet|g'''ö'''z]] گؤز | pronounced as /[gɵz]/ | 'eye' | Typically transcribed as pronounced as //œ//. | ||
| [[Chinese characters|出]]/[[Jyutping|c'''eo'''t7]] | pronounced as /[tsʰɵt˥]/ | 'to go out' | See Cantonese phonology | ||
| Standard | Dutch; Flemish: [[Dutch orthography|h'''u'''t]] | pronounced as /[ɦɵt]/ | 'hut' | See Dutch phonology | |
| foot | pronounced as /[fɵt]/ | 'foot' | More often unrounded pronounced as /link/; corresponds to pronounced as /link/ in other dialects. See English phonology | ||
| Younger, especially female speakers. Other speakers have a less front vowel pronounced as /link/. May be transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ʊ̟) or (IPA|ʉ̞). See South African English phonology | |||||
| pronounced as /[fɵʔt]/ | pronounced as /[ʊ]/ in more conservative varieties. See English phonology | ||||
| goat | pronounced as /[ɡɵːt]/ | 'goat' | Corresponds to pronounced as //oʊ// in other dialects. | ||
| bird | pronounced as /[bɵːd]/ | 'bird' | Corresponds to pronounced as //ɜː(r)// in other dialects. See New Zealand English phonology | ||
| French[2] | French: [[French orthography|j'''e''']] | pronounced as /[ʒɵ]/ | 'I' | May be transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ə) or (IPA|ɵ). Also described as mid pronounced as /link/. May be more front for a number of speakers. See French phonology | |
| German: [[German orthography|w'''i'''rd]] | pronounced as /[ʋɵʕ̞d̥]/ | 'becomes' | Allophone of pronounced as //i// before pronounced as //ʁ//. | ||
| German: [[German orthography|W'''u'''nder]] | pronounced as /[ˈv̞ɵn(d̥)oˤ]/ | 'wonder' | The example word is from the Chemnitz dialect. | ||
| y'''ö'''yk'''ö'''n̄ | pronounced as /[jɵjkɵŋ]/ | 'forget' | |||
| pronounced as /[ˈd̪ˠuːn̪ˠө]/ | 'closing' | Allophone of pronounced as //ə// adjacent to broad consonants, when the vowel in the preceding syllable is either pronounced as //uː// or pronounced as //ʊ//. See Irish phonology | |||
| Kazakh: көз | pronounced as /[kɵz]/ | 'eye' | Typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|œ). | ||
| Most dialects | Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish: bl'''u'''ts | pronounced as /[blɵts]/ | 'bump' | Typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ʏ). The example word is from the Weert dialect. | |
| Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish: b'''eu'''k | pronounced as /[bɵːk]/ | 'books' | Sometimes realized as a narrow diphthong pronounced as /[ɵʉ̞]/; typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|øː). Front pronounced as /link/ in other dialects. | ||
| Mongolian: [[Cyrillic script|'''ө'''г'''ө'''х]]/ögökh | pronounced as /[ɵɡɵx]/ | 'to give' | |||
| Norwegian: [[Norwegian alphabet|g'''u'''ll]] | pronounced as /[ɡɵl]/ | 'gold' | Near-close pronounced as /link/ in other dialects that have this vowel. Typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ʉ). See Norwegian phonology | ||
| Norwegian: [[Norwegian alphabet|s'''ø'''t]] | pronounced as /[sɵːt]/ | 'sweet' | Also described as front pronounced as /link/; typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|øː). See Norwegian phonology | ||
| Kerkrade dialect[3] | sj'''u'''ts | pronounced as /[ʃɵts]/ | 'marksman' | See Kerkrade dialect phonology | |
| Russian: [[Russian orthography|т'''ё'''тя]]/tyotya | 'aunt' | Allophone of pronounced as //o// following a palatalized consonant. See Russian phonology | |||
| Northern dialects | Tajik: [[Tajik orthography|к'''ӯ'''ҳ]]/kūh | pronounced as /[kɵh]/ | 'mountain' | May be realized as mid pronounced as /link/, merged with /u/ in the central and southern dialects. See Tajik phonology | |
| பர்/pȫr | pronounced as /[pɵːr̘]/ | 'name' | |||
| Uzbek: [[Uzbek alphabet|k'''oʻ'''z/к'''ў'''з]] | pronounced as /[kɵz]/ | 'eye' | Allophone of pronounced as //o//, especially near velar consonants pronounced as //k// and pronounced as //g//. May be realized as mid pronounced as /link/. See Uzbek phonology | ||
| Standard | Western Frisian: p'''u'''t | pronounced as /[pɵt]/ | 'well' | Typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ø). See West Frisian phonology | |
| Southwestern dialects[4] | Western Frisian: f'''uo'''tten | pronounced as /[ˈfɵtn̩]/ | 'feet' | Corresponds to pronounced as /[wo]/ in other dialects. See West Frisian phonology | |
| Lower | ľatsö | pronounced as /[ʎ̟ɐtsɵ˦]/ | 'to filter tea' | Typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ʉ). | |
| Upper | htö | pronounced as /[htɵ]/ | 'way to do things' | Allophone of pronounced as //o// after alveolar consonants; may be realized as pronounced as /link/ or pronounced as /link/ instead. | |
| Above: | Close-mid central compressed vowel |
| Ipa Symbol: | ø̈ |
| Ipa Symbol2: | ɘ͡β̞ |
| Ipa Symbol3: | ɘᵝ |
| Ipa Symbol4: | ɵ͍ |
| Showbelow: | no |
As there is no official diacritic for compression in the IPA, the centering diacritic is used with the front rounded vowel pronounced as /[ø]/, which is normally compressed. Other possible transcriptions are (IPA|ɘ͡β̞) (simultaneous pronounced as /[ɘ]/ and labial compression) and (IPA|ɘᵝ) (pronounced as /[ɘ]/ modified with labial compression).
pronounced as /navigation/