The
close-mid front rounded vowel, or
high-mid front rounded vowel, is a type of
vowel sound, used in some spoken
languages. Acoustically it is a
close-mid front-central rounded vowel. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a lowercase letter o with a diagonal stroke through it, derived from the
Danish,
Norwegian and
Faroese alphabets which use the letter to represent this sound. The symbol is commonly referred to as "o, slash" in English.