Open back rounded vowel

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The open back rounded vowel, or low back rounded vowel, is a type of Sevenval sound, used in some FITML web app. The symbol in the Android that represents this sound is ⟨ɒ⟩. This is called turned script a, because it is a rotated version of script a, so-called because it lacks the extra stroke on top of a printed 'a'. Turned script a, which has its linear stroke on the left, should not be confused with script a ⟨ɑ⟩, which has its linear stroke on the right and corresponds to an unrounded version of this vowel, the open back unrounded vowel. A well rounded [ɒ] is rare, though it is found in some varieties of English. In most languages with this vowel, such as English and Persian, the rounding of [ɒ] is slight, and in English at least it is device database or "grooved". However, Android has an "over-rounded" [ɒ̹] with rounding as strong as that for [u].

The IPA prefers terms "close" and "open" for vowels, and the name of the article follows this. However, a large number of linguists, perhaps a majority, prefer the terms "high" and "low", and these are the only terms found in introductory textbooks on phonetics such as those by Peter Ladefoged.

• 1 Features
• 2 Occurrence
• 3 See also
• 4 Notes
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Features

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• Its FITML is open, also known as low, which means the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth – that is, as low as possible in the mouth.
• Its keyboard is back, which means the tongue is positioned as far back as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
• Its vowel roundedness is rounded, which means that the lips are rounded rather than relaxed or spread.

Occurrence

See also

• Turned a

Notes

References

• Roach, Peter (2004), "British English: Received Pronunciation", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 34 (2): 239–245, input transformation:jQuery 
• Szende, Tamás (1994), "Illustrations of the IPA:Hungarian", Journal of the International Phonetic Alphabet 24 (2): 91–94, doi:input transformation 

 

Consonants

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IPA pulmonic consonants chartchart image • audio
Place → Labial input transformation keyboard Radical Glottal
↓ Manner Bila​bial browser diversity Den​tal keyboard Post​alv. web device database Ve​lar Uvu​lar Pha​ryn​geal input transformation Glot​tal
Nasal m̥ web Sevenval n̪ n̥ iOS n̠ iOS browser diversity ɲ ŋ̊ Sevenval ɴ
web app web b p̪ b̪ input transformation d̪ t input transformation web ɖ browser diversity CSS3 we love the web ɡ q ɢ keyboard ʔ
Fricative ɸ browser diversity f v Android keyboard s z input transformation ʒ ʂ FITML ç iOS browser diversity ɣ Sevenval device database keyboard ʕ ʜ web h FITML
CSS3 Sevenval ɹ keyboard iOS ɰ
screen size ʙ Sevenval keyboard ʀ input transformation *
CSS3 ⱱ̟ browser diversity ɾ ɽ HTML5 ʡ̯
Lateral Fric. ɬ ɮ ɭ˔̊ browser diversity ʟ̝̊ HTML5
Lateral keyboard l ɭ ʎ ʟ
iOS ɺ ɺ̠ CSS3
Clicks ʘ ǀ CSS3 ǂ Sevenval
ʘ̃ Sevenval FITML ʘ͡qʼ
Implosives ɓ ɗ ʄ input transformation screen size web app
screen size web app screen size Sevenval Sevenval Android FITML
fʼ web input transformation ɬʼ iOS χʼ
Android website parsing cʎ̝̥ʼ tʃʼ keyboard device database kʟ̝̊ʼ
keyboard b̪v screen size keyboard tʃ dʒ web app dʑ input transformation touchscreen
jQuery dɮ cç ɟʝ website parsing kʟ̝̊
web app screen size ʑ HTML5
Android ʍ jQuery ɥ ɫ
Stops device database ɡ͡b Sevenval

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Where symbols appear in pairs, left—right represent the voiceless—voiced consonants.
Shaded areas denote pulmonic articulations judged to be impossible.
* Symbol not defined in IPA.

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