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    The letter Ʊ (minuscule: ʊ), called horseshoe or sometimes bucket, inverted omega or Latin upsilon, is a letter of the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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    used in some spoken languages. The IPA symbol that represents this sound is ⟨ʊ⟩. It is informally called "horseshoe u". Prior to 1989, there was an alternative...
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  • several more: Latin/IPA ᶛ ᶜ ᶝ ᶞ ᶟ ᶠ ᶡ ᶢ ᶣ ᶤ ᶥ ᶦ ᶧ ᶨ ᶩ ᶪ ᶫ ᶬ ᶭ ᶮ ᶯ ᶰ ᶱ ᶲ ᶳ ᶴ ᶵ ᶶ ᶸ ᶹ ᶺ ᶻ ᶼ ᶽ ᶾ, Greek ᶿ. The Cyrillic Extended-B block contains two Cyrillic...
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    transcribed in IPA with ⟨ʉ̞⟩, ⟨ʊ̈⟩ and ⟨ʊ̟⟩, but ⟨ɵ̝⟩ is also a possible transcription. The symbol ⟨ᵿ⟩, a conflation of ⟨ʊ⟩ and ⟨ʉ⟩, is used as an unofficial...
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  • English have two close back vowels: the near-close near-back rounded vowel /ʊ/ found in words like foot, and the close back rounded vowel /uː/ (realized...
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    U
    commonly represents /ʌ/ (as in 'duck'), though it retains its old pronunciation /ʊ/ after labial consonants in some words (as in 'put') and occasionally elsewhere...
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  • natively possesses a symmetrical ten-vowel system. The vowels [ə], [ɪ], [ʊ] are always short in length, while the vowels [aː], [iː], [uː], [eː], [oː]...
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    Sonitpur district [Pron: ˌsə(ʊ)nɪtˈpʊə or ˌʃə(ʊ)nɪtˈpʊə] is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. The district headquarters is located...
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  • Ʊ, or ʊ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Upsilon (Υ or υ) is the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet. Upsilon may also refer to: Latin upsilon (Ʊ or...
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  • vowel [ɯ] close back protruded vowel [u] near-close back protruded vowel [ʊ] close-mid back unrounded vowel [ɤ] close-mid back protruded vowel [o] open-mid...
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  • as follows: /ɪ, ʏ, ʉ, ʊ/ have been variously described as near-close [ɪ, ʏ, ʉ̞, ʊ] and close [i, y, ʉ, u]. In addition, /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ are more peripheral...
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  • and Southern dialects), the Middle English phoneme /ʊ/ split into /ʌ/ (as in cut, strut) and /ʊ/ (put, foot); this change did not occur north of the...
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    Monophthongs RP GA Word iː i need ɪ bid e ɛ bed æ back ɑː ɑ bra ɒ box ɔ, ɑ cloth ɔː paw uː u food ʊ good ʌ but ɜː ɜɹ bird ə comma...
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    back vowels are now pronounced as front vowels (for example [a], [ɔ], and [ʊ] as [ɛ], [œ], and [ʏ]). (The term Germanic umlaut is also used for the underlying...
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    Other suffixes can occur in /U/ being realized as /ʊ, u/, in which case all −ATR vowels lead to /ʊ/ and all +ATR vowels lead to /u/; e.g. /aw/ 'to take"l'...
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  • transcribed as /ʊ/ and /uː/, have undergone fronting and reduction in the amount of lip-rounding (phonetically, these can be transcribed [ʊ̜̈] and [ʉ̜ː],...
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  • [ɘ̝] (unofficial symbol: ⟨ᵻ⟩) near-close central protruded vowel [ʉ̞], [ʊ̈], [ʊ̟] or [ɵ̝] (unofficial symbol: ⟨ᵿ⟩) near-close central compressed vowel [ʏ̈]...
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    O
    vowel [a]. Common digraphs include ⟨oo⟩, which represents either /uː/ or /ʊ/; ⟨oi⟩ or ⟨oy⟩, which typically represents the diphthong /ɔɪ/, and ⟨ao⟩, ⟨oe⟩...
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    symbols have different pronunciations. For example, a ḍammah is pronounced [ʊ~u], while in Iranian Persian it is pronounced [o]. This system is not used...
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  • implosive allophones [ɓ, ɗ]. Sounds /i, u, ɛ, ɔ, a/ can have allophones [ɪ, ʊ, e, o, ɑ]. Simalungun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...
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  • Australians [First used in 1847 by JD Lang, Cooksland, 430]. Boong, pronounced with ʊ (like the vowel in bull), is related to the Australian English slang word...
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  • near-close /ɪ, ʊ/ can also be analyzed as diphthongs /iɪ, uʊ/. Here, they are analyzed as monophthongs. The diphthongal allophones of /ɪ, ʊ/ are falling:...
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  • Open back unrounded vowel Ɑ U+2C6D υ upsilon U+03C5 ʊ U+028A near-close near-back rounded vowel Ʊ U+01B1 ι iota U+03B9 ɩ U+0269 Obsolete for near-close...
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    W
    in the Welsh loanwords cwm and crwth it retains the Welsh pronunciation, /ʊ/. ⟨w⟩ is also used in digraphs: ⟨aw⟩ /ɔː/, ⟨ew⟩ /(j)uː/, ⟨ow⟩ /aʊ, oʊ/, wherein...
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  • or merge. If the two vowels merge, they are pronounced either as [ɤ] or [ʊ], as in northern England—see foot–strut split. The majority of Brummies use...
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    triplets: fully front /i–ɪ–e/ and fully back /u–ʊ–o/. In the case of this language, the near-close vowels /ɪ, ʊ/ tend to be transcribed with the phonetically...
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    small-cap vowel letters have been modified into more distinctive shapes (e.g. ⟨ʊ ɤ ɛ ʌ⟩ from U Ɐ E A), with only ⟨ɪ ʏ⟩ remaining as small capitals. The International...
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    Capital Letter U with horn U+01B0 ư 432 Latin Small Letter U with horn U+01B1 Ʊ 433 Latin Capital Letter Upsilon U+01B2 Ʋ 434 Latin Capital Letter V with...
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    /j w/, in cavē [ˈka.weː] "beware!", cuius [ˈkʊj.jʊs] "whose", monuī [ˈmɔn.ʊ.iː] "I warned", solvī [ˈsɔɫ.wiː] "I released", dēlēvī [deːˈleː.wiː] "I destroyed"...
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  • has ɖ ɛ ɣ ɩ ŋ ɔ ʊ. The letters ɩ and ʊ follows international norms, and are equivalent to ⠔ ị and ⠳ ụ in Igbo Braille. (Unesco reports u/ʊ braille values...
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