Open front rounded vowel

The open front 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 ɶ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is &. {| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" style="float:right; margin-left:15px"\n| IPA - Unicode\n| align="center" style="font-size: 24px"|ɶ\n|-\n| IPA - image \n| \n|-\n| X-SAMPA\n| align="center"|&\n|-\n| Kirshenbaum\n| align="center"|a.\n|-\n! colspan="2"|Sound sample\n|} Features of this vowel:

• Its vowel height is open, which means the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.\n* Its vowel backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant\n* Its vowel roundedness is rounded, which means that the lips are rounded.