Editing Open-mid back unrounded vowel (section)

{{Short description|Vowel sound represented by ⟨ʌ⟩ in IPA}}
{{Infobox IPA
|ipa symbol=ʌ
|ipa number=314
|decimal=652
|xsampa=V
|kirshenbaum=V
|imagefile=IPA Unicode 0x028C.svg
|imagesize=150px
|braille=346
}}
{{IPA vowels|class=floatright}}
[[File:Spectrogram of open-mid back unrounded vowel (IPA ʌ).png|thumb|Spectrogram of {{IPA|[ʌ]}}]]

The '''open-mid back unrounded vowel''' or '''low-mid back unrounded vowel'''<ref>{{Vowel terminology}}</ref> is a type of [[vowel]] sound, used in some [[Speech communication|spoken]] [[language]]s. The symbol in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] that represents this sound is {{angbr IPA|ʌ}}, graphically a rotated lowercase "v" (called a [[Turned v|turned V]] but created as a small-capital {{angbr|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 language|English]], this symbol is commonly used for the [[Near-open central vowel|near-open central unrounded vowel]] and in transcriptions for [[Danish language|Danish]], it is used for the [[open back rounded vowel]].