| Above: | Mid back rounded vowel |
| Ipa Symbol: | o̞ |
| Ipa Symbol2: | ɔ̝ |
| Ipa Number: | 307 430 |
| Decimal1: | 111 |
| Decimal2: | 798 |
| Braille: | o |
| Braille2: | 6 |
| Braille3: | gh |
pronounced as /vowels/
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 pronounced as /[o]/ and open-mid pronounced as /[ɔ]/, it is normally written (IPA|o). If precision is desired, diacritics may be used, such as (IPA|o̞) or (IPA|ɔ̝), the former being more common. There was an alternative IPA symbol for this sound, ⟨ꭥ⟩. A non-IPA letter (IPA|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. Tukang Besi is a language in Sulawesi, Indonesia, with a close-mid pronounced as /[o]/. Taba, another language in Indonesia, in the Maluku Islands, has an open-mid pronounced as /[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 any difference in other parameters, such as backness or roundedness.
| Language | Word | Meaning | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Afrikaans: [[Afrikaans alphabet|b'''o'''k]] | pronounced as /[bɔ̝k]/ | 'goat' | Typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ɔ). The height varies between mid pronounced as /[ɔ̝]/ and close-mid pronounced as /link/. See Afrikaans phonology | ||
| Arabic: لـ'''و'''ن|rtl=yes/lōn | pronounced as /[lo̞ːn]/ | 'color' | See Hejazi Arabic phonology | |||
| Possible realization of unstressed pronounced as //ɔ//; can be open-mid pronounced as /link/ or close-mid pronounced as /link/ instead. | ||||||
| [[Chinese characters|我]] / [[Hanyu Pinyin|wǒ]] | 'I' | See Standard Chinese phonology | ||||
| [[Chinese characters|高]]/kò | pronounced as /[kö̞¹]/ | 'tall' | Near-back. Realization of pronounced as //ɔ// in open syllables and pronounced as //ʊ// in closed syllables. | |||
| Czech: [[Czech orthography|'''o'''k'''o''']] | pronounced as /[ˈo̞ko̞]/ | 'eye' | In Bohemian Czech, the backness varies between back and near-back, whereas the height varies between mid pronounced as /[o̞]/ and close-mid pronounced as /link/. See Czech phonology | |||
| Standard | Danish: [[Danish and Norwegian alphabet|m'''å'''le]] | pronounced as /[ˈmɔ̽ːlə]/ | 'measure' | Near-back; typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ɔː). See Danish phonology | ||
| Amsterdam | Dutch; Flemish: [[Dutch orthography|'''o'''ch]] | pronounced as /[ɔ̝̈χ]/ | 'alas' | Near-back; corresponds to open-mid pronounced as /link/ in standard Dutch. See Dutch phonology | ||
| Dutch; Flemish: [[Dutch orthography|m'''o'''t]] | pronounced as /[mɔ̝t]/ | 'well' | Typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ɔ). | |||
| thought | pronounced as /[θɔ̝ːt]/ | 'thought' | Close-mid pronounced as /link/ for other speakers. See South African English phonology | |||
| Near-close pronounced as /link/ in General New Zealand English. | ||||||
| Typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ɔː). | ||||||
| Some Cardiff speakers | Other speakers use a more open, advanced and unrounded vowel pronounced as /link/. | |||||
| Cambodia | 'Cambodia' | Near-back; often diphthongal: pronounced as /[ö̞ʊ]/. Some regional North American varieties use a vowel that is closer to cardinal pronounced as /link/. See English phonology | ||||
| pronounced as /[kʰamˈbo̞ːdjə]/ | Corresponds to pronounced as //əʊ// in other British dialects. See English phonology | |||||
| Faroese[1] | Faroese: [[Faroese orthography|t'''o'''ldi]] | pronounced as /[ˈtʰɔ̝ltɪ̞]/ | 'endured' | Typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ɔ). See Faroese phonology | ||
| Finnish: [[Finnish alphabet|kell'''o''']] | pronounced as /[ˈke̞lːo̞]/ | 'clock' | See Finnish phonology | |||
| Parisian | French: [[French orthography|p'''ont''']] | pronounced as /[pɔ̝̃]/ | 'bridge' | Nasalized
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| Southern accents | German: [[German orthography|v'''o'''ll]] | pronounced as /[fɔ̝l]/ | 'full' | Common realization of pronounced as //ɔ// in Southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Open-mid pronounced as /link/ in Northern Standard German. See Standard German phonology | ||
| Western Swiss accents | German: [[German orthography|h'''o'''ch]] | pronounced as /[ho̞ːχ]/ | 'high' | Close-mid pronounced as /link/ in other accents. See Standard German phonology | ||
| Modern Standard | pronounced as /[po̞s̠]/ | 'how' | See Modern Greek phonology | |||
| Hebrew: [[hebrew alphabet|שלום]]|rtl=yes/shalom/šɔlom | pronounced as /[ʃäˈlo̞m]/ | 'peace' | Hebrew vowels are not shown in the script. See Niqqud and Modern Hebrew phonology | |||
| do | pronounced as /[dó̞]/ | 'there' | ||||
| Icelandic: [[Icelandic orthography|l'''o'''ft]] | pronounced as /[ˈlɔ̝ft]/ | 'air' | Typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ɔ). The long allophone is often diphthongized to pronounced as /[oɔ]/. See Icelandic phonology | |||
| Maniitsoq | [maniːtsːo̞q] | 'Maniitsoq' | Allophone of pronounced as //u// before and especially between uvulars. See Greenlandic phonology | |||
| Standard | Italian: [[Italian alphabet|f'''o'''rense]] | pronounced as /[fo̞ˈrɛnse]/ | 'forensic' | Common realization of the unstressed pronounced as //o//. See Italian phonology | ||
| Northern accents | bosco | [ˈbo̞sko̞] | 'forest' | Local realization of pronounced as //ɔ//. See Italian phonology | ||
| Japanese: [[Japanese orthography|子]]/Japanese: [[Romanization of Japanese|k'''o''']] | pronounced as /[ko̞]/ | 'child' | See Japanese phonology | |||
| Korean: [[Hangul|보리]] / Korean: [[Revised Romanization of Korean|b'''o'''ri]] | pronounced as /[po̞ˈɾi]/ | 'barley' | See Korean phonology | |||
| Hasselt dialect | Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish: m'''o'''k | pronounced as /[mɔ̝k]/ | 'mug' | May be transcribed IPA with (IPA|ɔ). See Hasselt dialect phonology | ||
| Malay | Standard | پوكوق / pokok | pronounced as /[po̞.ko̞ʔ]/ | 'tree' | See Malay phonology | |
| Johor-Riau | ||||||
| Norwegian: [[Norwegian alphabet|l'''o'''v]] | pronounced as /[lo̞ːʋ]/ | 'law' | Also described as close-mid pronounced as /link/. See Norwegian phonology | |||
| Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: [[Romanian alphabet|ac'''o'''l'''o''']] | pronounced as /[äˈko̞lo̞]/ | 'there' | See Romanian phonology | |||
| Russian: [[Russian orthography|сух'''о'''й]]/sukhoy/sukhoj | 'dry' | Some speakers realize it as open-mid pronounced as /link/. See Russian phonology | ||||
| Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: [[Scottish Gaelic orthography|ru'''a'''dh]] | [rˠʊɔ̝̈ɣ] | 'red' | Near-back and weakly rounded; allophone of pronounced as /link/ in the pronounced as //uə// diphthong. | |||
| [[Serbian Cyrillic alphabet|к'''о̑'''д]] / [[Gaj's Latin alphabet|k'''ȏ'''d]]/kõd | pronounced as /[kô̞ːd̪]/ | 'code' | See Serbo-Croatian phonology | |||
| koni | pronounced as /[ˈkö̞ni̞]/ | 'eel' | Near-back. | |||
| Slovene[2] | Slovenian: [[Slovene orthography|'''o'''glas]] | pronounced as /[o̞ˈɡlá̠s̪]/ | 'advertisement' | Unstressed vowel, as well as an allophone of pronounced as //o// before pronounced as //ʋ// when a vowel does not follow within the same word. See Slovene phonology | ||
| Spanish; Castilian: [[Spanish orthography|t'''o'''d'''o''']] | pronounced as /[ˈt̪o̞ð̞o̞]/ | 'all' | See Spanish phonology | |||
| z'''o''' | pronounced as /[zo̞ː]/ | 'rope' | ||||
| Thai | โต | pronounced as /[to̞ː˧]/ | 'big' | See Thai phonology | ||
| Turkish: [[Turkish alphabet|k'''o'''l]] | pronounced as /[kʰo̞ɫ]/ | 'arm' | See Turkish phonology | |||
| Zapotec | do | pronounced as /[d̪o̞]/ | 'corn tassel' | |||
pronounced as /navigation/