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Open-mid back unrounded vowel
Vowel sound represented by ⟨ʌ⟩ in IPA / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The open-mid back unrounded vowel or low-mid back unrounded 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 ⟨ʌ⟩, graphically a rotated lowercase "v" (called a turned V but created as a small-capital ⟨ᴀ⟩ without the crossbar, even though some vendors display it as a real turned v). Both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as a "wedge", "caret" or "hat". In transcriptions for English, this symbol is commonly used for the near-open central unrounded vowel and in transcriptions for Danish, it is used for the open back rounded vowel.
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Open-mid back unrounded vowel | |||
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ʌ | |||
IPA Number | 314 | ||
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Entity (decimal) | ʌ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+028C | ||
X-SAMPA | V | ||
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