Close front rounded vowel
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| Edit - 2× | Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back |
| Close | |||||
| Near‑close | |||||
| Close‑mid | |||||
| Mid | |||||
| Open‑mid | |||||
| Near‑open | |||||
| Open | |||||
Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.
represents a rounded vowel.
| IPA – number | 309 |
| IPA – text | y |
| IPA – image | Image:Xsampa-y.png |
| Entity | y |
| X-SAMPA | y |
| Kirshenbaum | y |
| Sound sample | |
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, commonly transcribed as [ʉ̟], which contrasts with both the rounded and unrounded close front vowels.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | dy | [dy] | 'two' | ||
| Azeri | güllə | [ɟylˈlæ] | 'bullet' | ||
| Cantonese | 書/syu1 | [syː] | 'book' | See Standard Cantonese | |
| Chechen | уьш/üş | [yʃ] | 'they' | ||
| Danish | yde | [ˈyːðə] | 'to supply' | See Danish phonology | |
| Dutch | fuut | [fyːt] | 'grebe' | See Dutch phonology | |
| English | Scottish | food | [fyd] | 'food' | Some dialects. Corresponds to /u/ or /ʉ/ in other dialects. See English phonology |
| Estonian | üks | [yks] | 'one' | ||
| Finnish | yksi | [ˈyksi] | 'one' | See Finnish phonology | |
| French | chute | [ʃyt] | 'fall' | See French phonology | |
| German | Blüte | [ˈblyːtə] | 'blossom' | See German phonology | |
| Hungarian | tű | [tyː] | 'pin' | See Hungarian phonology | |
| Korean | 위 wi | [y] | 'top' | May be diphthongized to [wi] by younger speakers | |
| Mandarin | 绿/lü | [lyː] | 'green' | See Standard Mandarin | |
| Norwegian | syd | [syːd] | 'south' | See Norwegian phonology | |
| Occitan | Gascon | lua | [ˈlyo] | 'moon' | |
| Languedocien | luna | [ˈlyno] | |||
| Provençal | |||||
| Swedish | yla | [yː(ɥ)la] | 'howl' | See Swedish phonology | |
| Turkish | güneş | [ɟyˈneʃ] | 'sun' | See Turkish phonology | |
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