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Mid back unrounded vowel

Vowel sound represented by ⟨ɤ̞⟩ or ⟨ʌ̝⟩ in IPA

Summary

Vowel sound represented by ⟨ɤ̞⟩ or ⟨ʌ̝⟩ in IPA

Field	Value
ipa symbol	ɤ̞
ipa symbol2	ʌ̝
ipa number	315 430
decimal1	612
decimal2	798

The mid back unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. There is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the exact mid back unrounded vowel between close-mid and open-mid , because no language is known to distinguish all three, but is normally used. If more precision is desired, diacritics can be used, such as or .

Features

Occurrence

Language		Word		IPA		Meaning		Notes
Bulgarian
Chinese
English
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Gayo
German
Ibibio
Vietnamese

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