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Close-mid back rounded vowel [o]
From Teflpedia
The close-mid back rounded vowel [o] is a vowel sound. It’s a cardinal vowel.
Features[edit | edit source]
The close-mid back rounded vowel has the following features:
- Vowel height: It’s a close-mid vowel, which means the tongue is positioned between a close vowel and an open-mid vowel.
- Vowel backness: A back vowel, which means the tongue is positioned towards the back of the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
- Vowel roundedness: It is a rounded vowel, which means that the lips are rounded.
Occurrence in English[edit | edit source]
This occurs in various dialects of English.
Representation[edit | edit source]
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it has the lowercase O, ⟨o⟩ as its IPA symbol. Its IPA number is 307. In IPA Braille, this has the Braille pattern dots-135, ⠕.
