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** Modern [[Germanic languages]] (with the notable exceptions of the largest dialects of [[Modern English]] (although [yː] for /uː/ is found in some accents in Northern England, and [øː] is a common [[South African]] realization of /ɜː/), [[Yiddish]], and some [[Alemannic German language|Alemannic German]] dialects) |
** Modern [[Germanic languages]] (with the notable exceptions of the largest dialects of [[Modern English]] (although [yː] for /uː/ is found in some accents in Northern England, and [øː] is a common [[South African English|South African]] realization of /ɜː/), [[Yiddish]], and some [[Alemannic German language|Alemannic German]] dialects) |
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** [[Gallo-Romance languages]], a subset of the [[Romance languages]] (e.g. [[French language|French]], [[Occitan language|Occitan]], [[Lombard language|Lombard]]) |
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** [[Albanian language|Albanian]] |
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Legend: unrounded • rounded |
A front rounded vowel is a particular type of vowel that is both front and rounded.
The front rounded vowels defined by the IPA include:
- [y], a close front rounded vowel (or "high front rounded vowel")
- [ʏ], a near-close front rounded vowel (or "near-high ...")
- [ø], a close-mid front rounded vowel (or "high-mid ...")
- [ø̞], a mid front rounded vowel
- [œ], an open-mid front rounded vowel (or "low-mid ...")
- [ɶ], an open front rounded vowel (or "low ...")
Front rounded vowels are cross-linguistically relatively uncommon, but occur in a number of well-known languages, including French, German, Turkish and Mandarin.
The high vowel [y] is the most common, while the low vowel [ɶ] is extremely rare. This is consistent with the general correlation between rounding and vowel height.
Language families in which front-rounded vowels are common are:
- Some Sino-Tibetan languages:
- Chinese varieties (e.g. Mandarin including Standard Chinese; Cantonese; Shanghainese)
- Standard Tibetan
- Various Indo-European languages:
- Modern Germanic languages (with the notable exceptions of the largest dialects of Modern English (although [yː] for /uː/ is found in some accents in Northern England, and [øː] is a common South African realization of /ɜː/), Yiddish, and some Alemannic German dialects)
- Gallo-Romance languages, a subset of the Romance languages (e.g. French, Occitan, Lombard)
- Albanian
- Ancient Greek
- Turkic languages (e.g. Turkish, Azerbaijani)
- Mongolic languages (e.g. Kalmyk, Inner Mongolian dialects; but not standard Khalkha)
- Uralic languages (e.g. Finnish, Hungarian)