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Mid back unrounded vowel
ɤ̞
ʌ̝
IPA number315 430
Encoding
Entity (decimal)ɤ​̞
Unicode (hex)U+0264 U+031E

The mid back unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Acoustically it is a mid back-central unrounded vowel.[1] Although there is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the exact mid back unrounded vowel between close-mid [ɤ] and open-mid [ʌ] because no language is known to distinguish all three, ⟨ɤ⟩ is normally used. If more precision is desired, diacritics can be used, such as ⟨ɤ̞⟩ or ⟨ʌ̝⟩.

References[]

  1. Geoff Lindsey (2013) The vowel space, Speech Talk
IPA: Vowels [edit]
Front Central Back

Paired vowels are: unrounded  rounded

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