The (near) open front rounded vowel, or (near) low front rounded vowel, is a type of

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sound that has not been confirmed to be

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in any spoken

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. The symbol in the

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that represents this sound is , and the equivalent

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symbol is &. The letter is a

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rendition of . , the lowercase version of the ligature, is used for the

open-mid front rounded vowel The open-mid front rounded vowel, or low-mid front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is . The symbol œ is a lowercase ligatur ...

. While the IPA chart lists it as a fully open vowel, the rounded equivalent of , Ladefoged characterizes it as near-open, the rounded equivalent of . A phoneme generally transcribed by this symbol is reported from the Bavarian dialect of Amstetten. However, it is phonetically

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, . It occurs allophonically in Weert Limburgish as well as in some speakers of Danish and

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. Certain transcriptions of Danish use to denote an ''open-mid'' front rounded vowel . In

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, the vowel transcribed with in th
Mestreechter Taol
dictionary is phonetically near-open central . It is a phonological open-mid front rounded vowel, the long counterpart of . reports that in Stockholm Swedish is sometimes difficult to distinguish from , which is the main realization of the phoneme, a sign that both vowels are phonetically very close.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Open Front Rounded Vowel Open vowels Front vowels Rounded vowels

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