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Close-mid back unrounded vowel
Vowel sound represented by ⟨ɤ⟩ in IPA
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Vowel sound represented by ⟨ɤ⟩ in IPA
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| ipa symbol | ɤ |
| ipa number | 315 |
| decimal | 612 |
| xsampa | 7 |
| imagefile | IPA Unicode 0x0264.svg |
| braille | 256 |
| braille2 | o |
The close-mid back unrounded vowel, or high-mid back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Its symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is , called "ram's horn." This symbol is distinct from the symbol for the voiced velar fricative, , which has a descender, but some texts use this symbol for the voiced velar fricative.
Before the 1989 IPA Convention, the symbol for the close-mid back unrounded vowel was , sometimes called "baby gamma", which has a flat top; this symbol was in turn derived from and replaced the inverted small capital A, , that represented the sound before the 1928 revision to the IPA. The symbol was again revised to be , "ram's horn", with a rounded top, in order to better differentiate it from the Latin gamma .
Unicode provides , but in some fonts this character may appear as a "baby gamma" instead. The superscript IPA version is . As of Unicode , there exists a capital ram's horn at .
Features
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aklanon | saeamat | 'thanks' | ||
| Bashkir | туғыҙ/tuğıź | 'nine' | ||
| Biak | ores | 'stand' | ||
| Bulgarian | бъз/bǎz | 'elderflower' | ||
| Chinese | Mandarin | 餓/è | 'hungry' | |
| English | Cape Flats | *foot* | 'foot' | |
| South African | Possible realization of ; may be a weakly rounded instead. See South African English phonology | |||
| Geordie | Usual realization of . See Geordie phonology | |||
| Birmingham and The Black Country | Corresponds to in most other dialects. | |||
| Estonian | kõrv | 'ear' | Can be close-mid central or close back instead, depending on the speaker. See Estonian phonology | |
| Gayo | kule | 'tiger' | Close-mid or mid; one of the possible allophones of . | |
| Iaai | löö | 'banana leaf' | ||
| Irish | Ulster | Uladh | 'Ulster' | |
| Kaingang | mo | 'tail' | Varies between back and central | |
| Korean | Gyeongsang dialect | 거기/geogi | 'there' | |
| Marathi | मत/mata | 'opinion' | See Marathi phonology | |
| Northern Tiwa | Taos dialect | mânpəumán | 'it was squeezed' | |
| Samogitian | õlgs | 'long' | May be central instead. | |
| Scottish Gaelic | doirbh | 'difficult' | See Scottish Gaelic phonology | |
| Rusyn | Lemko variety | часы/časy | 'times' | |
| Prešov variety | ||||
| Subcarpathian variety | ||||
| Thai | เธอ/''th'''ơ̄''''' | 'you' | ||
| Yaqay | khoro | 'frog' | Uncommon pronunciation of . |
Notes
References
References
- {{Vowel terminology
- Such as {{Harvcoltxt. Booij. 1999 and {{Harvcoltxt. Nowikow. 2012.
- International Phonetic Association. (1912). "The principles of the International Phonetic Association". Paris, Association Phonétique Internationale.
- Nicholas, Nick. (2003). "Greek-derived IPA symbols". Greek Unicode Issues.
- (2020-11-08). "L2/20-252R: Unicode request for IPA modifier-letters (a), pulmonic".
- (1998). "Dialectology".
- {{Harvcoltxt. Ní Chasaide. 1999
- (2016-06-02). "Фонетика :: Русинська Вебкнига".
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