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===Occurrence=== {| class="wikitable" ! colspan="2" | Language !! Word !! [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] !! Meaning !! Notes |- | [[Chinese language|Chinese]] || [[Shanghainese]]{{sfnp|Chen|Gussenhoven|2015|pp=328–329}} || {{lang|wuu|[[Chinese characters|都]]}}/tub ||{{IPA|[tɯᵝ˩]}} || 'capital' || Height varies between close and close-mid; contrasts with a close to close-mid back protruded vowel.{{sfnp|Chen|Gussenhoven|2015|pp=328–329}} |- | colspan="2" | [[Japanese language|Japanese]]{{sfnp|Okada|1999|p=118}} || {{lang|ja|[[Japanese orthography|空気]]}} / {{Transliteration|ja|[[Romanization of Japanese|k'''ū'''ki]]}} || {{Audio-IPA|ja-kuuki.ogg|[kɯ̟ᵝːki]|help=no}} || 'air' || Near-back; may be realized as central {{IPAblink|ɨᵝ}} by younger speakers.{{sfnp|Okada|1999|p=118}} See [[Japanese phonology]] |- | colspan="2" | [[Lizu language|Lizu]]{{sfnp|Chirkova|Chen|2013|p=78}} || colspan="2" align="center" | {{IPA|[<sup>F</sup>mɯ̟ᵝ]}}{{clarify|date=January 2019}} || 'feather' || Near-back.{{sfnp|Chirkova|Chen|2013|p=78}} |- | colspan="2" | [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]]{{sfnp|Vanvik|1979|pp=13, 17}}<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}} and {{Harvcoltxt|Kristoffersen|2000|p=16}}) state explicitly that it is compressed.</ref> || {{lang|no|[[Norwegian alphabet|m'''o'''t]]}} || {{IPA|[mɯᵝːt]}} || 'courage' || The example word is from [[Urban East Norwegian]], in which the vowel can be diphthongized to {{IPA|[ɯᵝə̯]}}.{{sfnp|Vanvik|1979|p=17}} See [[Norwegian phonology]] |- | [[Swedish language|Swedish]] || Central Standard{{sfnp|Engstrand|1999|p=140}}{{sfnp|Rosenqvist|2007|p=9}} || {{lang|sv|[[Swedish alphabet|'''o'''r'''o''']]}} || {{IPA|[²ɯᵝːrɯᵝː]}} || 'unease' || Often realized as a sequence {{IPA|[ɯᵝβ̞]}} or {{IPA|[ɯᵝβ]}}{{sfnp|Engstrand|1999|p=140}} (hear the word: {{Audio-IPA|Sv-oro.ogg|[²ɯᵝβrɯᵝβ]|help=no}}). See [[Swedish phonology]] |}
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