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The close-mid back unrounded vowel, or high-mid back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Acoustically it is a close-mid back-central unrounded vowel.[1] Its symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨ɤ⟩, called "ram's horns". It is distinct from the symbol for the voiced velar fricative, ⟨ɣ⟩, which has a descender.
The IPA prefers terms "close" and "open" for vowels, and the name of the article follows this. However, a large number of linguists, perhaps a majority, prefer the terms "high" and "low".
Before the 1989 IPA Convention, the symbol for the close-mid back unrounded vowel was ⟨⟩, sometimes called "baby gamma", which has a flat top. The symbol was revised to be ⟨⟩, "ram's horns", with a rounded top, in order to better differentiate it from the Latin gamma ⟨ɣ⟩.[2] Unicode provides only U+0264 ɤ latin small letter rams horn (HTML ɤ), but in some fonts this character may appear as a "baby gamma" instead.
Language, Back vowel, International Phonetic Alphabet, Vowel, Rounded vowel
Front vowel, International Phonetic Alphabet, Close-mid vowel, Place of articulation, Manner of articulation
Front vowel, Central vowel, Back vowel, Close vowel, Close-mid vowel
International Phonetic Alphabet, Near-back vowel, Back vowel, Close vowel, Chinese characters
Ə, International Phonetic Alphabet, Front vowel, Central vowel, Back vowel
Open back unrounded vowel, Close-mid back rounded vowel, Canada, United Kingdom, Close front unrounded vowel
Ř, Small capital, Ø, Americanist phonetic notation, Ʊ