Close-mid back unrounded vowel

The close-mid back unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɤ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 7. {| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" style="float:right; margin-left:15px"\n| IPA - Unicode\n| align="center" style="font-size: 24px"|ɤ\n|-\n| IPA - image \n| \n|-\n| X-SAMPA\n| align="center"|7\n|-\n| Kirshenbaum\n| align="center"|o-\n|-\n! colspan="2"|Sound sample\n|} Features of this vowel:

• Its vowel height is close-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between close vowel and a mid vowel.\n* Its vowel backness is back, which means the tongue is positioned as far back as possible in the mouth in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.\n* Its vowel roundedness is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded.