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Close Back Unrounded Vowel IPA - Unicode> | align="center" style="font-size: 24px"| | | IPA - image | align="center"| | | X-SAMPA | align="center"|M | | Kirshenbaum | align="center"|u- | | colspan="2"|Sound sample | The close back unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is M. The IPA symbol is a turned letter m, although given its relation to the sound represented by the letter u, it can be considered a u with an extra "bowl". The sound is sometimes referred to as "unrounded u". Features of this vowel: - Its vowel height is close, which means the tongue is positioned as close as possible 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 as far back as possible in the mouth in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
- Its vowel roundedness is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded.
This sound is represented in northern Welsh dialects by "u".
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