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The open front rounded vowel is a type of Vowel sound, used in some Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is &. The symbol is a small capital Π. Note that , the lowercase version of the ligature, is used for the Open-mid Front Rounded Vowel .


FEATURES

  • Its Vowel Height is Open , which means the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

  • 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.



OCCURRENCE

is not confirmed to exist as a phoneme in any language. A phoneme generally transcribed by this symbol is reported from the Amstetten dialect of Bavarian German. It is the rounded equivalent of , not of open , and so would be more narrowly transcribed as or . However, the vowel Formant s place Amstetten and one third of the way between and , matching the IPA definition for Open-mid Vowel s.