Editing Close-mid central rounded vowel (section)

{{Short description|Vowel sound represented by ⟨ɵ⟩ in IPA}}
{{distinguish|text=[[Voiceless dental fricative]], represented by ⟨θ⟩ in the IPA}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox IPA
|ipa symbol=ɵ
|ipa number=323
|decimal=629
|x-sampa=8
|kirshenbaum=@.
|imagefile=IPA Unicode 0x0275.svg
|imagesize=150px
|braille=356
|braille2=o
}}
{{IPA vowels|class=floatright}}

[[File:Spectrogram of close-mid central rounded vowel (IPA ɵ).png|thumb|Spectrogram of {{IPA|[ɵ]}}]]

The '''close-mid central rounded vowel''', or '''high-mid central rounded vowel''',<ref>{{Vowel terminology}}</ref> is a type of [[vowel]] sound. The symbol in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] that represents this sound is {{angbr IPA|ɵ}}, a lowercase [[Ɵ|barred letter o]]. The value was specified only in 1993; until then, {{angbr IPA|ɵ}} represented the [[mid central rounded vowel]] {{IPA|[ə̹]}}.

The character [[ɵ]] has been used in several Latin-derived alphabets such as the one for [[Yañalif]] but then denotes a sound that is different from that of the IPA. The character is homographic with [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] [[Oe (Cyrillic)|Ө]]. The [[Unicode]] code point is {{unichar|019F|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH MIDDLE TILDE|html=}}.

This vowel occurs in [[Cantonese language|Cantonese]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[French language|French]], [[Russian language|Russian]] and [[Swedish language|Swedish]] as well as in a number of English dialects as a realization of {{IPA|/ʊ/}} (as in ''f'''oo'''t''), {{IPA|/ɜː/}} (as in ''n'''ur'''se'') or {{IPA|/oʊ/}} (as in ''g'''oa'''t'').

This sound rarely contrasts with the [[near-close front rounded vowel]] and so is sometimes transcribed with the symbol {{angbr IPA|ʏ}} (the symbol for the [[near-close front rounded vowel]]).