Mid back unrounded vowel | |
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ɤ̞ | |
ʌ̝ | |
IPA number | 315 430 |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | ɤ̞ |
Unicode (hex) | U+0264 U+031E |
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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. 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⟩.