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Close-mid Back Unrounded Vowel IPA - Unicode> | align="center" style="font-size: 24px"| | | IPA - image | align="center"| | | X-SAMPA | align="center"|7 | | Kirshenbaum | align="center"|o- | | colspan="2"|Sound sample | The close-mid back unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Its symbol in X-SAMPA is 7, and its equivalent in the International Phonetic Alphabet is . The latter symbol is not to be confused with the small Greek letter gamma (γ); gamma has a descender, which in the IPA corresponds to the voiced velar fricative consonant. The symbol used for this vowel is called "ram's horns". Features of this vowel: Languages using this vowel include Estonian, in which it is written , Korean, written ㅓ, and Chinese, in the pinyin e (when stressed at the end of a syllable and not preceded by i, , or u).
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