Close back unrounded vowel
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| Close back unrounded vowel | |||
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| ɯ | |||
| IPA number | 316 | ||
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| Entity (decimal) | ɯ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+026F | ||
| X-SAMPA | M | ||
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Legend: unrounded • rounded |
The close back unrounded vowel, or high back unrounded vowel,[1] is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɯ⟩. Typographically, it is a turned letter ⟨m⟩; given its relation to the sound represented by the letter ⟨u⟩, it can be considered a ligature of 2 ⟨u⟩'s.
The close back unrounded vowel can in many cases be considered the vocalic equivalent of the voiced velar approximant .
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Features
- Its vowel height is close, also known as high, which means the tongue is positioned close to the roof of the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
- Its vowel backness is back, which means the tongue is positioned back in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant. Unrounded back vowels tend to be centralized, which means that often they are in fact near-back.
- It is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acehnese[2] | eu | 'see' | Also described as closer to [ɨ].[3][4] | ||
| Arara[5] | îput | 'my skin' | Frequent realisation of /ɨ/.[5] | ||
| Arbëreshë | Arbëreshë | 'Arbëreshë' | /ə/ in standard Albanian. | ||
| Azerbaijani | bahalı | 'expensive' | Closer to an [6] | ||
| Bashkir | ҡыҙ / qıđ | 'girl' | |||
| Chinese | Mandarin | 刺 / cì | 'thorn' | ||
| Some Wu dialects | 父 / vu | 'father' | |||
| Xiang | 火 / xu | 'fire' | |||
| Chuvash | ыхра/ıxra | 'garlic' | |||
| Crimean Tatar | джаным/canım | 'my dear' | |||
| English | African-American[7] | hook | 'hook' | Near-close; possible realization of /ʊ/.[7] | |
| Tidewater[8] | Near-close; may be rounded [ʊ] instead.[8] | ||||
| Some California speakers[9] | goose | 'goose' | Corresponds to [uː] in other dialects. | ||
| New Zealand[10][11] | treacle | 'treacle' | Possible realization of the unstressed vowel /ɯ/, which is variable in rounding and ranges from central to (more often) back and close to close-mid.[10][11] Corresponds to /əl/ in other accents. Develops from dark L; See New Zealand English phonology | ||
| Some Philadelphia speakers[12] | plus | 'plus' | Used by some speakers; the exact height and backness is variable.[12] It corresponds to [ʌ] in other accents. See English phonology | ||
| South African[13] | pill | 'pill' | Near-close; possible allophone of /ɪ/ before the velarised allophone of /l/.[13] See South African English phonology | ||
| Estonian[14] | kõrv | 'ear' | Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɤ⟩; can be close-mid central [ɘ] or close-mid back [ɤ] instead, depending on the speaker.[14] See Estonian phonology | ||
| Irish | Ulster | caol | 'narrow' | See Irish phonology | |
| Japanese[15] | 空気 / kūki | ⓘ | 'air' | May be compressed [ɯᵝ].[16] See Japanese phonology | |
| Katukina[17] | 'oscar (fish)' | ||||
| Kazakh | қыс/qys/قىس | 'winter' | May be pronounced as [qəs] | ||
| Korean[18] | 음식 飮食 / eumsik | 'food' | See Korean phonology | ||
| Kurdish | Kurmanji (Northern) | tirş | 'sour' | See Kurdish phonology. The "i" after "t" always uses this sound if the "t" is "tˤ". However, it can also appear at other places. | |
| Sorani (Central) | ترش / tirş | ||||
| Kyrgyz | кыз / qyz / قىز | 'girl' | See Kyrgyz phonology | ||
| Panará[19] | 'to breathe' | ||||
| Portuguese | European[20] | pegar | ⓘ | 'to grab' | Reduced vowel. Near-close.[20] Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɨ⟩. See Portuguese phonology |
| Romanian | Some speakers | când | 'when' | Typically described as /ɨ/. See Romanian phonology | |
| Scottish Gaelic | caol | 'thin' | See Scottish Gaelic phonology | ||
| Sop | düm | 'tree' | See Sop language | ||
| Tamil | அழகு / aḻagu | 'beauty' | Known by the Tamil grammar phenomenon குற்றியலுகரம் | ||
| Thai | Standard[21] | ขึ้น / khuen/khîn | 'to go up' | ||
| Turkish[22] | sığ | 'shallow' | Described variously as close back ,[22] near-close near-back [23] and close central [ɨ].[24] See Turkish phonology | ||
| Turkmen | ýaşyl/یاشیٛل | 'green' | |||
| Uyghur | تىلىم/tılım / tilim | 'my language' | In complementary distribution with /ɪ/. See Uyghur phonology | ||
| Vietnamese | tư | 'fourth' | See Vietnamese phonology | ||
See also
Notes
- ^ While the International Phonetic Association prefers the terms "close" and "open" for vowel height, many linguists use "high" and "low".
- ^ Durie, Mark (1990). "Proto-Chamic and Acehnese Mid Vowels: Towards Proto-Aceh-Chamic" (PDF). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. LII, Part 1: 100–111. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00021297. S2CID 162224060. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2010.
- ^ Asyik, Abdul Gani. "The Agreement System in Acehnese" (PDF). Mon-Khmer Studies. XI: 1–33. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- ^ Al-Harbi, Awwad Ahmad Al-Ahmadi (January 2003). "Acehnese Coda Condition: An Optimality-Theoretic Account" (PDF). Umm Al-Qura University Journal of Educational and Social Sciences and Humanities. 15 (1): 9–28.
- ^ a b Alves (2013), p. 269.
- ^ Ghaffarvand-Mokari & Werner 2016, p. 514.
- ^ a b Wells (1982), p. 557.
- ^ a b Wells (1982), p. 536.
- ^ Ladefoged (1999), pp. 42–43.
- ^ a b Warren, Paul. NZE Phonology (PDF) (Report). Victoria University of Wellington. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2024.
- ^ a b Bauer & Warren (2004), p. 585.
- ^ a b Gordon (2004), p. 290.
- ^ a b Bowerman (2004), p. 936.
- ^ a b Asu & Teras (2009), p. 369.
- ^ Labrune (2012), p. 25.
- ^ Okada (1999), p. 118.
- ^ dos Anjos (2012), p. 129.
- ^ Lee (1999), p. 122.
- ^ Vasconcelos (2013), p. 182.
- ^ a b Cruz-Ferreira (1995), p. 91.
- ^ Tingsabadh & Abramson (1993), p. 24.
- ^ a b Göksel & Kerslake (2005:10)
- ^ Kiliç & Öğüt (2004)
- ^ Zimmer & Orgun (1999:155)
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