Close back rounded vowel | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 03/12/2018

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Close back rounded vowel


00:00:44 1 Close back protruded vowel
00:01:25 1.1 Features
00:02:07 1.2 Occurrence
00:02:15 2 Close back compressed vowel
00:03:03 2.1 Features
00:03:47 2.2 Occurrence
00:03:55 3 See also



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SUMMARY
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The close back rounded vowel, or high back rounded vowel, 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.
In most languages, this rounded vowel is pronounced with protruded lips ('endolabial'). However, in a few cases the lips are compressed ('exolabial').
The close back rounded vowel is almost identical featurally to the labio-velar approximant [w]. [u] alternates with [w] in certain languages, such as French, and in the diphthongs of some languages, [u̯] with the non-syllabic diacritic and [w] are used in different transcription systems to represent the same sound.