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Close back unrounded vowel | |||
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ɯ | |||
IPA Number | 316 | ||
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Entity (decimal) | ɯ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+026F | ||
X-SAMPA | M | ||
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Legend: unrounded • rounded |
The close back unrounded vowel, or high back unrounded vowel,[1] is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɯ⟩. Typographically, it is a turned letter ⟨m⟩; given its relation to the sound represented by the letter ⟨u⟩, it can be considered a ligature of 2 ⟨u⟩'s.
The close back unrounded vowel can in many cases be considered the vocalic equivalent of the voiced velar approximant [ɰ].