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Close-mid Back Rounded Vowel IPA - Unicode> | align="center" style="font-size: 24px"| | | IPA - image | align="center"| | | X-SAMPA | align="center"|o | | Kirshenbaum | align="center"|o | | colspan="2"|Sound sample | The close-mid back rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is o. Features of this vowel: This vowel doesn't occur by itself in English, but in American English it forms the first part of the diphthong oʊ, which is the sound corresponding to the letters oa in boat or the letter o in go. In many other languages written with the Latin alphabet, this sound is simply represented by the letter o.
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