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Front rounded vowel

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Front rounded vowel

A front rounded vowel is a particular type of vowel that is both front and rounded.

The front rounded vowels defined by the IPA include:

  • [y], a close front rounded vowel (or "high front rounded vowel")
  • [ʏ], a near-close near-front rounded vowel (or "near-high ...")
  • [ø], a close-mid front rounded vowel (or "high-mid ...")
  • [ø̞], a mid front rounded vowel
  • [œ], an open-mid front rounded vowel (or "low-mid ...")
  • [ɶ], an open front rounded vowel (or "low ...")

    • Front rounded vowels are cross-linguistically relatively uncommon, but occur in a number of well-known languages, including French, German and Chinese.

    The high vowel [y] is the most common, while the low vowel [ɶ] is extremely rare. This is consistent with the general correlation between rounding and vowel height.

    Language families in which front-rounded vowels are common are:

  • Sino-Tibetan languages (e.g. Standard Chinese, Standard Tibetan)
  • Various Indo-European languages:
  • most Germanic languages
  • Gallo-Romance languages, a subset of the Romance languages (e.g. French, Occitan, Lombard)
  • Albanian
  • Ancient Greek
  • Turkic languages
  • Mongolic languages
  • Uralic languages (e.g. Finnish, Hungarian)

    • References

    Front rounded vowel Wikipedia
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