Editing Close-mid front rounded vowel (section)

==Close-mid front protruded vowel==
{{Infobox IPA
|above = Close-mid front protruded vowel
|ipa symbol = ø̫
|ipa symbol3 = øʷ
|ipa symbol4 = eʷ
}}

Catford notes{{full citation needed|date=July 2019}} that most languages with rounded front and back vowels use distinct types of labialization, protruded back vowels and compressed front vowels. However, a few, such as the [[Scandinavian languages]], have protruded front vowels. One of them, Swedish, even contrasts the two types of rounding in front vowels (see [[near-close near-front rounded vowel]], with Swedish examples of both types of rounding).

As there are no diacritics in the IPA to distinguish protruded and compressed rounding, an old diacritic for labialization, {{angbr IPA|&nbsp;&nbsp;̫}}, will be used here as an ''ad hoc'' symbol for protruded front vowels. Another possible transcription is {{angbr IPA|øʷ}} or {{angbr IPA|eʷ}} (a close-mid front vowel modified by endolabialization), but that could be misread as a diphthong.

For the '''close-mid front protruded vowel''' that is usually transcribed with the symbol {{angbr IPA|ʏ}}, see [[near-close front protruded vowel]]. If the usual symbol is {{angbr IPA|ø}}, the vowel is listed here.

Acoustically, the sound is in between the more typical compressed close-mid front vowel {{IPA|[ø]}} and the unrounded close-mid front vowel {{IPAblink|e}}.

===Features===
{{close-mid vowel}}
{{front vowel}}
{{protruded vowel}}

===Occurrence===
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2"|Language !! Word !! [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]!! Meaning !! Notes
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]]{{sfnp|Vanvik|1979|pp=13, 20}}<ref>While {{Harvcoltxt|Vanvik|1979}} does not describe the exact type of rounding of this vowel, some other sources (e.g. {{Harvcoltxt|Haugen|1974|p=40}}) state explicitly that it is protruded.</ref> || {{lang|no|[[Norwegian alphabet|s'''ø'''t]]}} || {{IPA|[sø̫ːt]}} || 'sweet' || The example word is from [[Urban East Norwegian]], in which the vowel has also been described as central {{IPAblink|ɵː}}.{{sfnp|Kristoffersen|2000|pp=16–17, 33–35, 37, 343}} See [[Norwegian phonology]]
|-
| [[Swedish language|Swedish]] || Central Standard{{sfnp|Engstrand|1999|pp=140-141}} || {{lang|sv|[[Swedish alphabet|'''ö'''l]]}} || {{Audio-IPA|sv-öl.ogg|[ø̫ːl̪]}} || 'beer' || May be diphthongized to {{IPA|[øə̯]}}. See [[Swedish phonology]]
|}