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Explore the /ɒ/ sound in English phonology. Learn its articulation, characteristics, and role in pronunciation to enhance your understanding of spoken English.
In this lesson, we are going to learn how the sound /ɒ/ is produced by looking at the articulatory organs.
What Type of Sound Is /ɒ/?
/ɒ/ is the rounded form of /ɑ/ and it is mainly used in the British dialect.
How to Produce /ɒ/?
how to pronounce /ɒ/
To produce it, drop the jaw just a little and round the lips, unlike the unrounded /ɑ/ sound. Push your lips together and make a short, voiced sound. As you can see in the picture, the mouth is slightly more open than the /æ/ sound and less rounded than when producing the /ɔ/ sound.
Which Letters are Pronounced as /ɒ/?
/ɒ/ Around the World
As you can see in the table below, almost all of the common languages around the world do not have this sound. Therefore, you need a little practice to produce it.
| Existence | Example | |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | x | - |
| Spanish | x | - |
| Hindi | x | - |
| Bengali | x | - |
| Portuguese | x | - |
| Russian | x | - |
| Japanese | x | - |
| Vietnamese | x | - |
| Turkish | x | - |
| French | x | - |
| German | x | - |
| Italian | x | - |
| Persian | ✔ | تا |
| Standard Arabic | x | - |
| Korean | ✔ | ᄌᆞ주 |
| Indonesian | x | - |
| Filipino | x | - |
| Hungarian | ✔ | hat |
| Dutch | x | - |
| Polish | x | - |
| Romanian | x | - |
| Swedish | x | - |
| Czech | x | - |
| Greek | x | - |
| Ukrainian | x | - |
| Urdu | x | - |
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