The
close front rounded vowel, or
high front rounded vowel, is a type of
vowel sound, used in some spoken
languages. Acoustically it is a
close front-central rounded vowel. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent
X-SAMPA symbol is
y. Across many languages, it is most commonly represented
orthographically as (in German, Turkish and Basque) or , but also as (in
French and a few other
Romance languages); / (in the
romanization of various Asian languages); (in Hungarian for the long duration version; the short version is the found in other European alphabets); or (in
Cyrillic-based writing systems such as that for
Chechen)