Ipa Symbol: | ɒ |
Ipa Number: | 313 |
Decimal: | 594 |
X-Sampa: | Q |
Imagefile: | IPA Unicode 0x0252.svg |
Braille: | 256 |
Braille2: | ch |
pronounced as /vowels/The open back rounded vowel, or low back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (IPA|ɒ). It is called Latin turned alpha being a rotated version of Latin alpha. It seems a "turned script a", being a rotated version of "script (cursive) a", which is the variant of a that lacks the extra stroke on top of a "printed a". Latin turned alpha a (IPA|ɒ) has its linear stroke on the left, whereas Latin alpha a (IPA|ɑ) (for its unrounded counterpart) has its linear stroke on the right.
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | ||
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Standard | Afrikaans: [[Afrikaans alphabet|d'''aa'''r]]|italic=yes | pronounced as /[dɒːr]/ | 'there' | Fully back. Used by some speakers, particularly young female speakers of northern accents. Other speakers use an unrounded vowel pronounced as /[{{IPAplink|ɑː}} ~ {{IPAplink|ɑ|ɑ̟ː}}]/. See Afrikaans phonology | ||
Assamese: [[:wikt:কৰ#Assamese|'''ক'''ৰ]] / kor | pronounced as /[kɒ̹ɹ]/ | 'to do' | An "over-rounded" pronounced as /[ɒ̹]/, with rounding as strong as that for pronounced as /[u]/. May also be transcribed [ɔ]. | |||
Bulgarian: [[Bulgarian alphabet|м'''ъ'''ж]]/măž | pronounced as /[ˈmɒʃʲ]/ | 'man' | Found as the unification of the Proto-Slavic *ǫ, *ę, *ъ and *ь. Standard Bulgarian has /pronounced as /ink// for *ǫ and *ъ and /pronounced as /ink// for *ę and *ь. | |||
Catalan; Valencian: [[Catalan alphabet|s'''o'''c]]|italic=yes | pronounced as /[ˈsɒk]/ | 'clog' | Typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ɔ). See Catalan phonology | |||
Menorcan | ||||||
Valencian | ||||||
Some Valencian speakers | Catalan; Valencian: [[Catalan alphabet|taul'''a''']]|italic=yes | pronounced as /[ˈt̪ɑ̟wɫɒ̝]/ | 'table' | Can be realized as unrounded pronounced as /link/. | ||
Dutch; Flemish: [[Dutch orthography|b'''a'''d]]|italic=yes | pronounced as /[bɒ̝t]/ | 'bath' | Near-open fully back; may be unrounded pronounced as /link/ instead. It corresponds to pronounced as /link/ in standard Dutch. | |||
Rotterdam | ||||||
Some dialects | pronounced as /[bɒt]/ | 'bone' | Some non-Randstad dialects, for example those of Den Bosch and Groningen. It is open-mid pronounced as /link/ in standard Dutch. | |||
pronounced as /[nɒ̜̈t]/ | 'not' | Near-back and weakly rounded. Some younger speakers of the General variety may actually have a higher and fully unrounded vowel pronounced as /link/. See South African English phonology | ||||
pronounced as /[nɒt]/ | Somewhat raised. Contemporary RP speakers pronounce a closer vowel pronounced as /link/. It is proposed that the pronounced as /link/ vowel of Conservative RP, which is normally described as a rounded vowel, is pronounced by some speakers without rounded lips for whom the characteristic quality is rather one of sulcality.[1] See English phonology | |||||
May be somewhat raised and fronted. | ||||||
Lot and thought have the same vowel in Canadian English; see cot–caught merger. | ||||||
thought | 'thought' | |||||
General American | Vowel /ɔ(:)/ is lowered (phonetic realization of /ɔ(:)/ is much lower in GA than in RP). However, "Short o" before r before a vowel (a short o sound followed by r and then another vowel, as in orange, forest, moral, and warrant) is realized as [oɹ~ɔɹ]. | |||||
Inland Northern American | See Northern cities vowel shift | |||||
pronounced as /[t̪ʰɒʈ]/ | pronounced as //ɒ// and pronounced as //ɔː// differ entirely by length in Indian English. | |||||
pronounced as /[θɒːt]/ | Open-mid in Cardiff; may merge with pronounced as /link/ in northern dialects. | |||||
Many speakers | German: [[German alphabet|Gourm'''and''']]|italic=yes | pronounced as /[ɡ̊ʊʁˈmɒ̃ː]/ | 'gourmand' | Nasalized
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Swiss German; Alemannic; Alsatian: m'''aa'''ne|italic=yes | pronounced as /[ˈmɒːnə]/ | 'remind' | The example word is from the Zurich dialect, in which pronounced as /[ɒː]/ is in free variation with the unrounded pronounced as /link/. | |||
Standard | pronounced as /[ˈmɒ̜̽ɟɒ̜̽r]/ | 'Hungarian' | Somewhat fronted and raised, with only slight rounding; sometimes transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ɔ). Unrounded pronounced as /link/ in some dialects. See Hungarian phonology | |||
dọ | pronounced as /[dɒ̝́]/ | 'marry' | Near-open; typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ɔ). | |||
Irish: [[Irish orthography|'''ó'''lann]] | pronounced as /[ɒ̝ːɫ̪ən̪ˠ]/ | '(he) drinks' | Near-open; may be transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ɔː). | |||
c'''å'''p | pronounced as /[kɒp]/ | 'head' | See Istro-Romanian pronunciation (in Romanian). | |||
Jeju[2] | [[wiktionary:ᄒᆞ나#Jeju|'''ᄒᆞ'''나]]/hawna | [hɒna] | "one" | See Jeju phonology | ||
d'''ö'''n̄|italic=yes | pronounced as /[ⁿdɒ̝ŋ]/ | 'yam' | Raised vowel, being the back rounded counterpart of pronounced as /link/ in a symmetrical vowel inventory. | |||
‘'''ā'''n̄sār|italic=yes | pronounced as /[ʔɒ̝ŋsɒ̝r]/ | 'person' | Raised vowel, being the back rounded counterpart of pronounced as /link/ in a symmetrical vowel inventory. | |||
Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish: pl'''ao'''ts|italic=yes | pronounced as /[plɒ̝ːts]/ | 'place' | Near-open fully back; typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ɔː). Corresponds to pronounced as /link/ in other dialects. | |||
Malay | Kedah | tua | pronounced as /[tu.ɒ]/ | 'old' | Northern Kedah subdialect/dialect. Allophone of /a/ in word-final position in open-ended words and close-ended words that end with a glottal stop /ʔ/ or a glottal fricative /h/. | |
Neapolitan[3] | Vastese | Neapolitan: u'''â'''ʃtə | pronounced as /[uˈwɒʃtə]/ | 'Vasto' | ||
Norwegian: [[Norwegian alphabet|t'''o'''pp]]|italic=yes | pronounced as /[tʰɒ̝pː]/ | 'top' | Near-open, also described as close-mid back pronounced as /link/. Typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ɔ). See Norwegian phonology | |||
Dialects along the Swedish border | Norwegian: [[Norwegian alphabet|h'''a'''t]]|italic=yes | pronounced as /[hɒ̜ːt]/ | 'hate' | Weakly rounded and fully back. See Norwegian phonology | ||
Persian | Persian: [[Persian alphabet|ف'''ا'''رسی]] / fârsi | pronounced as /[fɒːɾˈsiː]/ | 'Persian' | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Carioca | ova | pronounced as /['ɒ'ː.va]/ | |||
Some speakers | Slovak: [[Slovak orthography|'''a''']]|italic=yes | pronounced as /[ɒ]/ | 'and' | Under Hungarian influence, some speakers realize the short pronounced as //a// as rounded. See Slovak phonology | ||
Central Standard | Swedish: [[Swedish orthography|j'''а'''g]]|italic=yes | pronounced as /[jɒ̝ːɡ]/ | 'I' | Near-open fully back weakly rounded vowel. Typically transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ɑː). See Swedish phonology | ||
pronounced as /[jɒːɡ]/ | More rounded than in Central Standard Swedish. | |||||
Standard[4] | pronounced as /[t͡ʃɒj]/ | 'tea' | ||||
Yoruba: [[Yoruba alphabet|it'''ọ'''ju]] | pronounced as /[itɒ̝ju]/ | 'care' | Near-open; most often transcribed in IPA with (IPA|ɔ). |
pronounced as /navigation/