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The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association. It is not a complete list of all possible speech sounds in the world's languages, only those about which stand-alone articles exist in this encyclopedia.
The close back rounded vowel, or high back rounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound used in many spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is u , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is u.
This chart provides audio examples for phonetic vowel symbols. The symbols shown include those in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and added material. The chart is based on the official IPA vowel chart. [1] The International Phonetic Alphabet is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.
In the vowels chart, a separate phonetic value is given for each major dialect, alongside the words used to name their corresponding lexical sets. The diaphonemes for the lexical sets given here are based on RP and General American; they are not sufficient to express all of the distinctions found in other dialects, such as Australian English.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 December 2024. 21st letter in the Latin alphabet This article is about the letter of the alphabet. For other uses, see U (disambiguation). "ASCII 85" redirects here. For the encoding, see Ascii85. U U u Usage Writing system Latin script Type Alphabetic Language of origin Latin Sound values [u] [w] [ʉ ...
The near-close back protruded vowel is typically transcribed in IPA simply as ʊ , and that is the convention used in this article. As there is no dedicated diacritic for protrusion in the IPA, symbol for the near-close back rounded vowel with an old diacritic for labialization, ̫ , can be used as an ad hoc symbol ʊ̫ for the near-close back protruded vowel.
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During the Great Vowel Shift, Middle English long /oː/ was raised to /uː/ in words like moon; Middle English long /uː/ was diphthongised, becoming the present-day /aʊ/, as in mouse; and Middle English /ɔː/ of nose was raised and later diphthongized, leading to present-day /oʊ ~ əʊ/.