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In phonetics, vowel roundedness is the amount of rounding in the lips during the articulation of a vowel. It is labialization of a vowel. When a rounded vowel is pronounced, the lips form a circular opening, and unrounded vowels are pronounced with the lips relaxed. In most languages, front vowels tend to be unrounded, and back vowels tend
name height backness roundness IPA number IPA text IPA image Entity X-SAMPA Sound sample Close front unrounded vowel: close: front: unrounded: 301: i i i Sound sample
Rounded vowels are [u], [ʊ], [o], [ɔ] and the unrounded vowels are [i], [ɪ], [e], [ɛ], [æ], [ɑ], [ʌ], [ə]. [4] The vowel systems of most languages can be represented by vowel diagrams. Usually, there is a pattern of even distribution of marks on the chart, a phenomenon that is known as vowel dispersion. For most languages, the vowel ...
Open front unrounded vowel: 5 [ɑ] Open back unrounded vowel: 6 [ɔ] Open-mid back rounded vowel: 7 [o] Close-mid back rounded vowel: 8 [u] Close back rounded vowel: 9 [y] Close front rounded vowel: 10 [ø] Close-mid front rounded vowel: 11 [œ] Open-mid front rounded vowel: 12 [ɶ] Open front rounded vowel: 13 [ɒ] Open back rounded vowel: 14 ...
The lip position of unrounded vowels may also be classified separately as spread and neutral (neither rounded nor spread). [12] Others distinguish compressed rounded vowels, in which the corners of the mouth are drawn together, from compressed unrounded vowels, in which the lips are compressed but the corners remain apart as in spread vowels.
Front rounded vowels usually occur in languages with vowel systems that distinguish a higher-than-average number of different vowel qualities. Typically, when a front rounded vowel occurs, the inventory of vowels includes an unrounded front vowel and a rounded back vowel of similar height.
open-mid central rounded vowel [ɞ] (older publications may use ɔ̈ ) near-open central vowel with ambiguous rounding [ɐ] (typically used for an unrounded vowel; if precision is desired, ɜ̞ may be used for an unrounded vowel and ɞ̞ for a rounded vowel) There also are central vowels that do not have dedicated symbols in the IPA:
Afrikaans contrasts unrounded and rounded mid central vowels; the latter is usually transcribed with œ . The contrast is not very stable, and many speakers use an unrounded vowel in both cases. [3] Danish [4] and Luxembourgish [5] have a mid central vowel that is variably rounded. In other languages, the change in rounding is accompanied with ...