In the Standard Northern variety, it is diphthongized to. See Danish phonologyĪlso described as central.

Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ œ⟩.Īlso described as near-close. Ĭontrasts close, near-close, close-mid and open-mid front rounded vowels in addition to the open central unrounded. Realization of ⟨o⟩ in the diphthong ⟨uo⟩. Its roundedness is compressed, which means that the margins of the lips are tense and drawn together in such a way that the inner surfaces are not exposed.īecause front rounded vowels are assumed to have compression, and few descriptions cover the distinction, some of the following may actually have protrusion.Rounded front vowels are often centralized, which means that often they are in fact near-front. Its vowel backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned forward in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.Its vowel height is close-mid, also known as high-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a close vowel (a high vowel) and a mid vowel.If the usual symbol is ⟨ ø⟩, the vowel is listed here. The spread-lip diacritic ⟨ ͍ ⟩ may also be used with a rounded vowel letter ⟨ ø͍⟩ as an ad hoc symbol, but 'spread' technically means unrounded.įor the close-mid front compressed vowel that is usually transcribed with the symbol ⟨ ʏ⟩, see near-close front compressed vowel. However, the compression of the lips can be shown with the letter ⟨ β̞⟩ as ⟨ e͡β̞⟩ (simultaneous and labial compression) or ⟨ eᵝ⟩ ( modified with labial compression). There is no dedicated diacritic for compression in the IPA. The close-mid front compressed vowel is typically transcribed in IPA simply as ⟨ ø⟩, which is the convention used in this article. If the usual symbol is ⟨ ø⟩, the vowel is listed here.Ĭlose-mid front compressed vowel The symbol is commonly referred to as 'o, slash' in English.įor the close-mid front rounded vowel that is usually transcribed with the symbol ⟨ ʏ⟩, see near-close front rounded vowel.

This sound is represented by the letter ⟨ø⟩ in most of Scandinavia by the digraphs ⟨eu⟩ and ⟨œu⟩ (using the ⟨œ⟩ ligature) in French and by ⟨ö⟩ in many languages like German-derived languages, Estonian, Swedish, Finnish, and Icelandic. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is ⟨ ø⟩, a lowercase letter o with a diagonal stroke through it, borrowed from Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese, which sometimes use the letter to represent the sound. The close-mid front rounded vowel, or high-mid front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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