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Close Front Rounded Vowel IPA - Unicode> | align="center" style="font-size: 24px"| | | IPA - image | align="center"| | | X-SAMPA | align="center"|y | | Kirshenbaum | align="center"|y | | colspan="2"|Sound sample | The close front rounded 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 y. 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 front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward 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.
This vowel represents the French u, the Dutch uu, the German, Hungarian, Estonian, Turkish, and Chinese , as well as the German, Scandinavian and Finnish y.
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