Open front rounded vowel

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The (near-)open front rounded vowel, or (near-)low front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound that has not been confirmed to be phonemic in any spoken language. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a small capital . , the lowercase of the ligature, is used for the open-mid front rounded vowel.

While the IPA chart lists it as a fully open vowel, the rounded equivalent of , characterizes it as near-open, the rounded equivalent of .

A phoneme generally transcribed by this symbol is reported from the Bavarian dialect of Amstetten. However, it is phonetically open-mid, .

It occurs allophonically in Weert Limburgish as well as in some speakers of Danish and Swedish. Certain transcriptions of Danish use to denote an open-mid front rounded vowel .

In Maastrichtian Limburgish, the vowel transcribed with in the Mestreechter Taol dictionary is phonetically near-open central . It is a phonological open-mid front rounded vowel, the long counterpart of .

reports that in Stockholm Swedish is sometimes difficult to distinguish from , which is the main realization of the phoneme, a sign that both vowels are phonetically very close.