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IPA Number | 313 | ||
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Entity (decimal) | ɒ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+0252 | ||
X-SAMPA | Q | ||
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Legend: unrounded • rounded |
The open back rounded vowel, or low back rounded 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 ⟨ɒ⟩. It is called Latin turned alpha being a rotated version of Latin alpha. It seems a "turned script a", being a rotated version of "script (cursive) a", which is the variant of a that lacks the extra stroke on top of a "printed a". Latin turned alpha a ⟨ɒ⟩ has its linear stroke on the left, whereas Latin alpha a ⟨ɑ⟩ (for its unrounded counterpart) has its linear stroke on the right.
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Afrikaans | Standard [2] | daar | [dɒːr] | 'there' | Fully back. Used by some speakers, particularly young female speakers of northern accents. Other speakers use an unrounded vowel [ ɑː ~ ɑ̟ː. [2] See Afrikaans phonology |
Assamese | কৰ / kor | [kɒ̹ɹ] | 'to do' | An "over-rounded" [ɒ̹], with rounding as strong as that for [u]. [3] May also be transcribed [ɔ]. | |
Bulgarian | Some Rhodopean dialects | мъж/măž | [ˈmɒʃʲ] | 'man' | Found as the unification of the Proto-Slavic *ǫ, *ę, *ъ and *ь. Standard Bulgarian has / ɤ̞/ for *ǫ and *ъ and / ɛ/ for *ę and *ь. |
Catalan | Majorcan [4] [5] | soc | [ˈsɒk] | 'clog' | Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩. See Catalan phonology |
Menorcan [4] [5] | |||||
Valencian [4] [5] | |||||
Some Valencian speakers [6] | taula | [ˈt̪ɑ̟wɫɒ̝] | 'table' | Can be realized as unrounded [ ɑ]. | |
Dutch | Leiden [7] | bad | [bɒ̝t] | 'bath' | Near-open fully back; may be unrounded [ ɑ̝] instead. [7] It corresponds to [ ɑ] in standard Dutch. |
Rotterdam [7] | |||||
Some dialects [8] | bot | [bɒt] | 'bone' | Some non- Randstad dialects, [8] for example those of Den Bosch and Groningen. It is open-mid [ ɔ] in standard Dutch. | |
English | South African [9] | not | [nɒ̜̈t] | 'not' | Near-back and weakly rounded. [9] Some younger speakers of the General variety may actually have a higher and fully unrounded vowel [ ʌ̈]. [9] See South African English phonology |
Conservative Received Pronunciation [10] | [nɒt] | Somewhat raised. Contemporary RP speakers pronounce a closer vowel [ ɔ]. It is proposed that the / ɒ/ vowel of Conservative RP, which is normally described as a rounded vowel, is pronounced by some speakers without rounded lips for whom the characteristic quality is rather one of sulcality. [11] See English phonology | |||
Northern English [12] | May be somewhat raised and fronted. [12] | ||||
Canadian [13] | Lot and thought have the same vowel in Canadian English; see cot–caught merger. | ||||
thought | 'thought' | ||||
General American | Vowel /ɔ(:)/ is lowered (phonetic realization of /ɔ(:)/ is much lower in GA than in RP). However, "Short o" before r before a vowel (a short o sound followed by r and then another vowel, as in orange, forest, moral, and warrant) is realized as [oɹ~ɔɹ]. | ||||
Inland Northern American [14] | See Northern cities vowel shift | ||||
Indian [15] | [t̪ʰɒʈ] | /ɒ/ and /ɔː/ differ entirely by length in Indian English. | |||
Welsh [16] [17] | [θɒːt] | Open-mid in Cardiff; may merge with / oː/ in northern dialects. | |||
German | Many speakers [18] | Gourmand | [ɡ̊ʊʁˈmɒ̃ː] | 'gourmand' | Nasalized; common phonetic realization of / ɑ̃ː/. [18] See Standard German phonology |
Many Swiss dialects [19] | maane | [ˈmɒːnə] | 'remind' | The example word is from the Zurich dialect, in which [ɒː] is in free variation with the unrounded [ ɑː]. [20] | |
Hungarian | Standard [21] | magyar | [ˈmɒ̜̽ɟɒ̜̽r] | 'Hungarian' | Somewhat fronted and raised, with only slight rounding; sometimes transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩. Unrounded [ ɑ] in some dialects. [22] See Hungarian phonology |
Ibibio [23] | dọ | [dɒ̝́] | 'marry' | Near-open; [23] typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩. | |
Irish | Ulster [24] | ólann | [ɒ̝ːɫ̪ən̪ˠ] | '(he) drinks' | Near-open; [24] may be transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔː⟩. |
Istro-Romanian [25] | cåp | [kɒp] | 'head' | See Istro-Romanian pronunciation (in Romanian). | |
Jeju [26] | ᄒᆞ나/hawna | [hɒna] | "one" | See Jeju phonology | |
Lehali [27] | dön̄ | [ⁿdɒ̝ŋ] | 'yam' | Raised vowel, being the back rounded counterpart of / æ/ in a symmetrical vowel inventory. [27] | |
Lemerig [28] | ‘ān̄sār | [ʔɒ̝ŋsɒ̝r] | 'person' | Raised vowel, being the back rounded counterpart of / æ/ in a symmetrical vowel inventory. [28] | |
Limburgish | Maastrichtian [29] | plaots | [plɒ̝ːts] | 'place' | Near-open fully back; typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔː⟩. [29] Corresponds to [ ɔː] in other dialects. |
Malay | Kedah | tua | [tu.ɒ] | 'old' | Northern Kedah subdialect/dialect. Allophone of /a/ in word-final position in open-ended words and close-ended words that end with a glottal stop /ʔ/ or a glottal fricative /h/. |
Neapolitan [30] | Vastese | uâʃtə | [uˈwɒʃtə] | ' Vasto' | |
Norwegian | Urban East [31] [32] | topp | [tʰɒ̝pː] | 'top' | Near-open, [31] [32] also described as close-mid back [ o]. [33] Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩. See Norwegian phonology |
Dialects along the Swedish border [34] | hat | [hɒ̜ːt] | 'hate' | Weakly rounded and fully back. [34] See Norwegian phonology | |
Persian | فارسی / fârsi | [fɒːɾˈsiː] | ' Persian' | ||
Brazilian Portuguese | Carioca | ova | ['ɒ'ː.va] | ||
Slovak | Some speakers [35] | a | [ɒ] | 'and' | Under Hungarian influence, some speakers realize the short /a/ as rounded. [35] See Slovak phonology |
Swedish | Central Standard [36] [37] | jаg | [jɒ̝ːɡ] | 'I' | Near-open fully back weakly rounded vowel. [36] Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɑː⟩. See Swedish phonology |
Gothenburg [37] | [jɒːɡ] | More rounded than in Central Standard Swedish. [37] | |||
Uzbek | Standard [38] | choy | [t͡ʃɒj] | 'tea' | |
Yoruba [39] | itọju | [itɒ̝ju] | 'care' | Near-open; most often transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩. |
Open back rounded vowel | |||
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ɒ | |||
IPA Number | 313 | ||
Audio sample | |||
Encoding | |||
Entity (decimal) | ɒ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+0252 | ||
X-SAMPA | Q | ||
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Legend: unrounded • rounded |
The open back rounded vowel, or low back rounded 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 ⟨ɒ⟩. It is called Latin turned alpha being a rotated version of Latin alpha. It seems a "turned script a", being a rotated version of "script (cursive) a", which is the variant of a that lacks the extra stroke on top of a "printed a". Latin turned alpha a ⟨ɒ⟩ has its linear stroke on the left, whereas Latin alpha a ⟨ɑ⟩ (for its unrounded counterpart) has its linear stroke on the right.
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Afrikaans | Standard [2] | daar | [dɒːr] | 'there' | Fully back. Used by some speakers, particularly young female speakers of northern accents. Other speakers use an unrounded vowel [ ɑː ~ ɑ̟ː. [2] See Afrikaans phonology |
Assamese | কৰ / kor | [kɒ̹ɹ] | 'to do' | An "over-rounded" [ɒ̹], with rounding as strong as that for [u]. [3] May also be transcribed [ɔ]. | |
Bulgarian | Some Rhodopean dialects | мъж/măž | [ˈmɒʃʲ] | 'man' | Found as the unification of the Proto-Slavic *ǫ, *ę, *ъ and *ь. Standard Bulgarian has / ɤ̞/ for *ǫ and *ъ and / ɛ/ for *ę and *ь. |
Catalan | Majorcan [4] [5] | soc | [ˈsɒk] | 'clog' | Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩. See Catalan phonology |
Menorcan [4] [5] | |||||
Valencian [4] [5] | |||||
Some Valencian speakers [6] | taula | [ˈt̪ɑ̟wɫɒ̝] | 'table' | Can be realized as unrounded [ ɑ]. | |
Dutch | Leiden [7] | bad | [bɒ̝t] | 'bath' | Near-open fully back; may be unrounded [ ɑ̝] instead. [7] It corresponds to [ ɑ] in standard Dutch. |
Rotterdam [7] | |||||
Some dialects [8] | bot | [bɒt] | 'bone' | Some non- Randstad dialects, [8] for example those of Den Bosch and Groningen. It is open-mid [ ɔ] in standard Dutch. | |
English | South African [9] | not | [nɒ̜̈t] | 'not' | Near-back and weakly rounded. [9] Some younger speakers of the General variety may actually have a higher and fully unrounded vowel [ ʌ̈]. [9] See South African English phonology |
Conservative Received Pronunciation [10] | [nɒt] | Somewhat raised. Contemporary RP speakers pronounce a closer vowel [ ɔ]. It is proposed that the / ɒ/ vowel of Conservative RP, which is normally described as a rounded vowel, is pronounced by some speakers without rounded lips for whom the characteristic quality is rather one of sulcality. [11] See English phonology | |||
Northern English [12] | May be somewhat raised and fronted. [12] | ||||
Canadian [13] | Lot and thought have the same vowel in Canadian English; see cot–caught merger. | ||||
thought | 'thought' | ||||
General American | Vowel /ɔ(:)/ is lowered (phonetic realization of /ɔ(:)/ is much lower in GA than in RP). However, "Short o" before r before a vowel (a short o sound followed by r and then another vowel, as in orange, forest, moral, and warrant) is realized as [oɹ~ɔɹ]. | ||||
Inland Northern American [14] | See Northern cities vowel shift | ||||
Indian [15] | [t̪ʰɒʈ] | /ɒ/ and /ɔː/ differ entirely by length in Indian English. | |||
Welsh [16] [17] | [θɒːt] | Open-mid in Cardiff; may merge with / oː/ in northern dialects. | |||
German | Many speakers [18] | Gourmand | [ɡ̊ʊʁˈmɒ̃ː] | 'gourmand' | Nasalized; common phonetic realization of / ɑ̃ː/. [18] See Standard German phonology |
Many Swiss dialects [19] | maane | [ˈmɒːnə] | 'remind' | The example word is from the Zurich dialect, in which [ɒː] is in free variation with the unrounded [ ɑː]. [20] | |
Hungarian | Standard [21] | magyar | [ˈmɒ̜̽ɟɒ̜̽r] | 'Hungarian' | Somewhat fronted and raised, with only slight rounding; sometimes transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩. Unrounded [ ɑ] in some dialects. [22] See Hungarian phonology |
Ibibio [23] | dọ | [dɒ̝́] | 'marry' | Near-open; [23] typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩. | |
Irish | Ulster [24] | ólann | [ɒ̝ːɫ̪ən̪ˠ] | '(he) drinks' | Near-open; [24] may be transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔː⟩. |
Istro-Romanian [25] | cåp | [kɒp] | 'head' | See Istro-Romanian pronunciation (in Romanian). | |
Jeju [26] | ᄒᆞ나/hawna | [hɒna] | "one" | See Jeju phonology | |
Lehali [27] | dön̄ | [ⁿdɒ̝ŋ] | 'yam' | Raised vowel, being the back rounded counterpart of / æ/ in a symmetrical vowel inventory. [27] | |
Lemerig [28] | ‘ān̄sār | [ʔɒ̝ŋsɒ̝r] | 'person' | Raised vowel, being the back rounded counterpart of / æ/ in a symmetrical vowel inventory. [28] | |
Limburgish | Maastrichtian [29] | plaots | [plɒ̝ːts] | 'place' | Near-open fully back; typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔː⟩. [29] Corresponds to [ ɔː] in other dialects. |
Malay | Kedah | tua | [tu.ɒ] | 'old' | Northern Kedah subdialect/dialect. Allophone of /a/ in word-final position in open-ended words and close-ended words that end with a glottal stop /ʔ/ or a glottal fricative /h/. |
Neapolitan [30] | Vastese | uâʃtə | [uˈwɒʃtə] | ' Vasto' | |
Norwegian | Urban East [31] [32] | topp | [tʰɒ̝pː] | 'top' | Near-open, [31] [32] also described as close-mid back [ o]. [33] Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩. See Norwegian phonology |
Dialects along the Swedish border [34] | hat | [hɒ̜ːt] | 'hate' | Weakly rounded and fully back. [34] See Norwegian phonology | |
Persian | فارسی / fârsi | [fɒːɾˈsiː] | ' Persian' | ||
Brazilian Portuguese | Carioca | ova | ['ɒ'ː.va] | ||
Slovak | Some speakers [35] | a | [ɒ] | 'and' | Under Hungarian influence, some speakers realize the short /a/ as rounded. [35] See Slovak phonology |
Swedish | Central Standard [36] [37] | jаg | [jɒ̝ːɡ] | 'I' | Near-open fully back weakly rounded vowel. [36] Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɑː⟩. See Swedish phonology |
Gothenburg [37] | [jɒːɡ] | More rounded than in Central Standard Swedish. [37] | |||
Uzbek | Standard [38] | choy | [t͡ʃɒj] | 'tea' | |
Yoruba [39] | itọju | [itɒ̝ju] | 'care' | Near-open; most often transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩. |