Editing Close back unrounded vowel (section)

{{Short description|Vowel sound represented by ⟨ɯ⟩ in IPA}}
{{for|the letter|Ɯ}}
{{distinguish|text = the Armenian letter [[Ayb (letter)|ա]] (U+0561), the Cyrillic letter [[Sha (Cyrillic)|ш]] (U+0448), or the Tamil letter [[Ya (Indic)|ய]] (U+0BAF)}}
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{{Infobox IPA
| ipa symbol = ɯ
| ipa number = 316
| decimal = 623
| x-sampa = M
| imagefile = IPA Unicode 0x026F.svg
| imagesize = 150px
| braille = 256
| braille2 = u
}}
{{IPA vowels|class=floatright}}

The '''close back unrounded vowel''', or '''high back unrounded vowel''',<ref>{{Vowel terminology}}</ref> is a type of [[vowel]] sound used in some spoken [[language]]s. The symbol in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] that represents this sound is {{angbr IPA|ɯ}}. Typographically, it is a turned letter {{angbr|m}}; given its relation to the sound represented by the letter {{angbr IPA|u}}, it can be considered a ligature of 2 {{angbr|u}}s.

The close back unrounded vowel can in many cases be considered the vocalic equivalent of the [[voiced velar approximant]] [ɰ].

[[File:Spectrogram of close back unrounded vowel (IPA ɯ).png|thumb|left|Spectrogram of {{IPA|[ɯ]}}]]