Close front rounded vowel

Vowels

See also: IPA, Consonants

Edit - 2×	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	i • y ɨ • ʉ ɯ • u ɪ • ʏ • ʊ e • ø ɘ • ɵ ɤ • o ə ɛ • œ ɜ • ɞ ʌ • ɔ æ ɐ a • ɶ ɑ • ɒ
Near‑close
Close‑mid
Mid
Open‑mid
Near‑open
Open

Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.

IPA – number	309
IPA – text	y
IPA – image
Entity	y
X-SAMPA	y
Kirshenbaum	y
Sound sample (help·info)

The close front 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 y, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is y.

There is also a close front compressed vowel, which contrasts with both the rounded and unrounded close front vowels.

Features

• Its vowel height is close, which means the tongue is positioned as close as possible to the roof of the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
• Its vowel backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
• Its vowel roundedness is rounded, which means that the lips are rounded and protrude, and the inner surfaces are exposed.

Occurrence

Close front compressed vowel

The close front compressed vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. There is no diacritic in the IPA to indicate compression, but since the Swedish back vowel [u] and Norwegian central vowel [ʉ] are also labially compressed, <ʉ̟> is frequently chosen as an ad hoc transcription for Swedish. Another possibility would be to transcribe it as a near-front vowel with an old alternate labialization diacritic, [i̫].

Features

• Its vowel height is near-close, which means the tongue is not quite so constricted as a close vowel.
• Its vowel backness is near-front, which means the tongue is positioned almost as far forward as a front vowel.
• Its vowel roundedness is compressed, which means the corners of the mouth are drawn slightly together and the lips may be compressed horizontally, but do not protrude.

Occurrence

As there is no official diacritic for compression in the IPA, the old diacritic for labialization, [  ̫], may be used here as an ad hoc symbol.

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See also

• List of phonetics topicsbr:Vogalenn serr a-raok ront

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