Back vowel

Back vowels are vowels that are formed back in the mouth. In German, o and u spoken as back vowels.

Closed unrounded back vowel

Phonetic and orthographic realization of the closed unrounded back vowel tongue in different languages:

• Scottish Gaelic: ao ( i), ui
• Japanese:うand the u -soundふin the syllable ( fu) [ ɸɯ ]
• Korean: ㅡ
• Turkish: ı
• Vietnamese: U
• Thai: อึ

In complicated vowel system of the Portuguese there for three vowels a our unstressed e [ ə ] corresponding weak pronunciation variant: a [ ɐ ], e [ ɯ ] o and [ ʊ ].

After the three-dimensional Turkish vowel system, whose eight vowels like the corners of a cube can be considered, ı [ ɯ ] the dark counterpart to i, closed counterpart of a, unrounded counterpart to u On the opposite corner of the cube is located - bright, open, rounded - the public t

Rounded closed back vowel

Phonetic and orthographic realization of the rounded closed back vowel tongue in different languages:

• German [ u]: u Examples: good [ gu ː t]

• Examples: goût [ gu ], ouvrir [ uvʀiʀ ]

Rounded centralized nearly closed back vowel

Phonetic and orthographic realization of the rounded centralized almost closed back vowel tongue in different languages:

• German: " short" u Examples: butter [' bʊtɐ ], judgment [' ʔʊɐtail ]

Until 1989, the character was ɷ for the same volume used.

Unrounded semi-closed back vowel

Phonetic and orthographic realization of the unrounded semi-enclosed rear tongue vowel in different languages:

• Estonian: õ
• Bulgarian: ъ
• Romanian: ă
• Albanian: ë
• Thai: เออ ( long), เอ อะ and เอิ (short)

Rounded semi-closed back vowel

Phonetic and orthographic realization of the rounded half-closed rear tongue vowel in different languages:

• French: ô, eau au, o Examples: aussitôt [ osito ], roseau [ ʀozo ]

• Japanese:お

• German [o ]: Examples: Bote [' bo ː tə ]

Unrounded semi-open back vowel

Phonetic and orthographic realization of the semi-open back unrounded vowel tongue in different languages:

• English [ ʌ ]: o, u, oo, ou Examples: worry [ ' wʌɹi: ], cut [ kʌt ], blood [ blʌd ], courage [ ' kʌɹɪdʒ ]

Rounded semi-open back vowel

Phonetic and orthographic realization of the semi-open back rounded vowel tongue in different languages:

• French: [ ɔ ]: o Examples: homme [ ɔm ] to continue [ fɔʀ ], porte [ pɔʀt ]

• German: [ ɔ ]: o Examples: Bob [ bɔp ], boxes [ bɔksn̩ ], open [ ɔfn̩ ] ton [t ʰ ɔnə ]

Unrounded open back vowel

Phonetic and orthographic realization of the unrounded open back vowel tongue in different languages:

• French: [ ɑ ]: a sometimes (especially â ) Examples: casser [ kɑ.se ], château [ ʃa.to ]

• Examples: chambre [ ʃɑ.bʀ ], pendant [ pɑ.dɑ ] emploi [ ɑ.plwa ]

Rounded open back vowel

The Rounded open back vowel is a vowel that is described in the International Phonetic Alphabet with the sign [ ɒ ].

For German -speaking is the sound as " dark " Rounded, with further back in the mouth lying tongue formed a can rewrite; similar in dt o the pot.

Phonetic and orthographic realization of the rounded open back vowel tongue in different languages:

• Engl. flop ( failure) [ flɒp ] (BE)
• Ungar kalap ( hat) [ kɒlɒp ]
• Farsi دار ( gallows ) [ dɒr ]