Open front rounded vowel

Phonetic sound

open front rounded vowel
Symbol (font)	[ɶ#ɐɜ0;]
Symbol (image)	File:Xsampa-amper.png
IPA–number	312
Entity (decimal)	ɶ
Unicode (hex)	U+0276
X-SAMPA	&
Kirshenbaum	a.
Sound sample

   IPA vowel chartimage • File:Loudspeaker.svg audio

	Front	Near-​front	Central	Near-​back	Back
Close	File:Blank vowel trapezoid.svg [[[close fɾont unɾounded vowel|i]]] • [[[close fɾont ɾounded vowel|y]]] [[[close centɾal unɾounded vowel|ɨ]]] • [[[close centɾal ɾounded vowel|ʉ]]] [[[close back unɾounded vowel|ɯ]]] • [[[close back ɾounded vowel|u]]] [[[neaɾ-close neaɾ-fɾont unɾounded vowel|ɪ]]] • [[[neaɾ-close neaɾ-fɾont ɾounded vowel|ʏ]]] [[[neaɾ-close centɾal unɾounded vowel|ɪ̈]]] • [[[neaɾ-close centɾal ɾounded vowel|ʊ̈]]]  • [[[neaɾ-close neaɾ-back ɾounded vowel|ʊ]]] [[[close-mid fɾont unɾounded vowel|e]]] • [[[close-mid fɾont ɾounded vowel|ø]]] [[[close-mid centɾal unɾounded vowel|ɘ]]] • [[[close-mid centɾal ɾounded vowel|ɵ]]] [[[close-mid back unɾounded vowel|ɤ]]] • [[[close-mid back ɾounded vowel|o]]] [[[mid-centɾal vowel|ə]]] [[[open-mid fɾont unɾounded vowel|ɛ]]] • [[[open-mid fɾont ɾounded vowel|œ]]] [[[open-mid centɾal unɾounded vowel|ɜ]]] • [[[open-mid centɾal ɾounded vowel|ɞ]]] [[[open-mid back unɾounded vowel|ʌ]]] • [[[open-mid back ɾounded vowel|ɔ]]] [[[neaɾ-open fɾont unɾounded vowel|æ]]] • [[[neaɾ-open centɾal vowel|ɐ]]] [[[open fɾont unɾounded vowel|a]]] • [[[open fɾont ɾounded vowel|ɶ]]] [[[open back unɾounded vowel|ɑ]]] • [[[open back ɾounded vowel|ɒ]]]
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open
[ɶnbsp;•ɶ#ɜø;] Where vowels are paired, the one on the left is unrounded and the one on the right rounded.

The open front rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, not confirmed to be phonemic in any spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is [ɶ], and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is &. The symbol [ɶ] is a small caps rendition of Œ. Note that [œ], 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.
• The lips are rounded.

Occurrence

ɶ 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 [/æ/], not of open [/a/], and so would be more narrowly transcribed as œ̞ or ɶ̝. However, the vowel formants place Amstetten [/æ/] and [/œ/] one third of the way between [/a/] and [/i/], matching the IPA definition for open-mid vowels.

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Danish		børn	bɶ̝ɐ̯n	'children'	See Danish phonology
French	Acadian	honneur	ɔnɶ̝ʁ	'honour'	Allophone of [/œ/] before [/ʁ/]. See French phonology
	Some Montreal speakers
German	Amstetten dialect	Seil	sɶ̝ː	'rope'	See German phonology
Swedish		hört	hɶ̝ːʈ	'heard' (supine)	See Swedish phonology

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