Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The close-mid back unrounded vowel, or high-mid back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Acoustically it is a close-mid back-central unrounded vowel. Its symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨ɤ⟩, called \"ram's horns\". It is distinct from the symbol for the voiced velar fricative, ⟨ɣ⟩, which has a descender.The IPA prefers terms \"close\" and \"open\" for vowels, and the name of the article follows this. However, a large number of linguists, perhaps a majority, prefer the terms \"high\" and \"low\".Before the 1989 IPA Convention, the symbol for the close-mid back unrounded vowel was ⟨12px⟩, sometimes called \"baby gamma\", which has a flat top. The symbol was revised to be ⟨12px⟩, \"ram's horns\", with a rounded top, in order to better differentiate it from the Latin gamma ⟨ɣ⟩. Unicode provides only U+0264 ɤ LATIN SMALL LETTER RAMS HORN (HTML ɤ), but in some fonts this character may appear as a \"baby gamma\" instead."@en }
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- Close-mid_back_unrounded_vowel abstract "The close-mid back unrounded vowel, or high-mid back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Acoustically it is a close-mid back-central unrounded vowel. Its symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨ɤ⟩, called \"ram's horns\". It is distinct from the symbol for the voiced velar fricative, ⟨ɣ⟩, which has a descender.The IPA prefers terms \"close\" and \"open\" for vowels, and the name of the article follows this. However, a large number of linguists, perhaps a majority, prefer the terms \"high\" and \"low\".Before the 1989 IPA Convention, the symbol for the close-mid back unrounded vowel was ⟨12px⟩, sometimes called \"baby gamma\", which has a flat top. The symbol was revised to be ⟨12px⟩, \"ram's horns\", with a rounded top, in order to better differentiate it from the Latin gamma ⟨ɣ⟩. Unicode provides only U+0264 ɤ LATIN SMALL LETTER RAMS HORN (HTML ɤ), but in some fonts this character may appear as a \"baby gamma\" instead.".