Open-mid back rounded vowel

The open-mid back 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 {{IPA|ɔ}}, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is O. The IPA symbol is a turned letter c and both the symbol and the sound are commonly called "open-o". The name open-o represents the sound, in that it is like the sound represented by , the close-mid back rounded vowel, except it is more open. It also represents the symbol, which can be remembered as an o which has been "opened" by removing part of the closed circular shape.

Occurs in

• {{ll|Catalan}}: cosa {{IPA|}}, 'thing'
• {{ll|Dutch}}: vol {{IPA|}}, 'full'
• {{ll|English}}: (RP) ball {{IPA|}}; (AuE and NZE) hot {{IPA|}}
• {{ll|French}}: sort {{IPA|}}, 'fate'
• {{ll|German}}: voll {{IPA|}}, 'full'
• {{ll|Portuguese}}: módulo {{IPA|}}, 'module'
• {{ll|Swedish}}: åtta {{Audio-IPA|sv-åtta.ogg|}}, 'eight'
• {{ll|Vietnamese}}: to {{IPA|}}, 'large'