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Open o or turned c (majuscule: Ɔ, minuscule: ɔ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. In the International Phonetic Alphabet , it represents the open-mid back rounded vowel . It is used in the orthographies of many African languages using the African reference alphabet .
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɔ . The IPA symbol is a turned letter c and both the symbol and the sound are commonly called "open-o". The name open-o represents the sound, in that it is like the sound represented by o , the close-mid back rounded vowel, except it is more
This chart provides audio examples for phonetic vowel symbols. The symbols shown include those in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and added material. The chart is based on the official IPA vowel chart. [1] The International Phonetic Alphabet is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.
open front rounded vowel [ɶ] [2] open back unrounded vowel [ɑ] open back rounded vowel [ɒ] There also are central vowels that do not have dedicated symbols in the IPA: open central unrounded vowel [ä] or [ɐ̞] (commonly written [a] as if it were front) open central rounded vowel [ɒ̈] There is no unambiguous way of transcribing the open ...
Loop-tail g and open-tail ɡ are graphic variants. Open-tail ɡ was the original IPA symbol, but both are now considered correct. See history of the IPA for details. The letters chosen for the IPA are meant to harmonize with the Latin alphabet.
The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association. It is not a complete list of all possible speech sounds in the world's languages, only those about which stand-alone articles exist in this encyclopedia.
The symbol's names and phonetic descriptions are described in the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association. The symbols also have nonce names in the Unicode standard. In some cases, the Unicode names and the IPA names do not agree. For example, IPA calls ɛ "epsilon", but Unicode calls it "small letter open E".
Throughout Wikipedia, the pronunciation of words is indicated using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The following tables list the IPA symbols used for English words and pronunciations. Please note that several of these symbols are used in ways that are specific to Wikipedia, and differ from those used by dictionaries.