Language |
Word |
IPA |
Meaning |
Notes
|
Afrikaans |
Standard |
daar |
[dɒːr] |
'there' |
Fully back. Used by some speakers, particularly young female speakers of northern accents. Other speakers use an unrounded vowel [ɑː ~ ɑ̟ː]. See Afrikaans phonology
|
Assamese |
কৰ / kor |
[kɒ̹ɹ] |
'to do' |
An "over-rounded" [ɒ̹], with rounding as strong as that for [u]. May also be transcribed [ɔ].
|
Bulgarian |
Some Rhodopean dialects |
мъж/măž |
[ˈmɒʃʲ] |
'man' |
Found as the unification of the Proto-Slavic *ǫ, *ę, *ъ and *ь. Standard Bulgarian has /ɤ̞/ for *ǫ and *ъ and /ɛ/ for *ę and *ь.
|
Catalan |
Majorcan |
soc |
[ˈsɒk] |
'clog' |
Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩. See Catalan phonology
|
Menorcan
|
Valencian
|
Some Valencian speakers |
taula |
[ˈt̪ɑ̟wɫɒ̝] |
'table' |
Can be realized as unrounded [ɑ].
|
Dutch |
Leiden |
bad |
[bɒ̝t] |
'bath' |
Near-open fully back; may be unrounded [ɑ̝] instead. It corresponds to [ɑ] in standard Dutch.
|
Rotterdam
|
Some dialects |
bot |
[bɒt] |
'bone' |
Some non-Randstad dialects, for example those of Den Bosch and Groningen. It is open-mid [ɔ] in standard Dutch.
|
English |
South African |
not |
[nɒ̜̈t] |
'not' |
Near-back and weakly rounded. Some younger speakers of the General variety may actually have a higher and fully unrounded vowel [ʌ̈]. See South African English phonology
|
Conservative Received Pronunciation |
[nɒt] |
Somewhat raised. Contemporary RP speakers pronounce a closer vowel [ɔ]. It is proposed that the /ɒ/ vowel of Conservative RP, which is normally described as a rounded vowel, is pronounced by some speakers without rounded lips for whom the characteristic quality is rather one of sulcality.[11] See English phonology
|
Northern English |
May be somewhat raised and fronted.
|
Canadian |
Lot and thought have the same vowel in Canadian English; see cot–caught merger.
|
thought
|
[θɒt]ⓘ
|
'thought'
|
General American
|
Vowel /ɔ(:)/ is lowered (phonetic realization of /ɔ(:)/ is much lower in GA than in RP). However, "Short o" before r before a vowel (a short o sound followed by r and then another vowel, as in orange, forest, moral, and warrant) is realized as [oɹ~ɔɹ].
|
Inland Northern American[14] |
See Northern cities vowel shift
|
Indian
|
[t̪ʰɒʈ] |
/ɒ/ and /ɔː/ differ entirely by length in Indian English.
|
Welsh |
[θɒːt] |
Open-mid in Cardiff; may merge with /oː/ in northern dialects.
|
German |
Many speakers |
Gourmand |
[ɡ̊ʊʁˈmɒ̃ː] |
'gourmand' |
Nasalized; common phonetic realization of /ɑ̃ː/. See Standard German phonology
|
Many Swiss dialects |
maane |
[ˈmɒːnə] |
'remind' |
The example word is from the Zurich dialect, in which [ɒː] is in free variation with the unrounded [ɑː].
|
Hungarian |
Standard |
magyar |
[ˈmɒ̜̽ɟɒ̜̽r] |
'Hungarian' |
Somewhat fronted and raised, with only slight rounding; sometimes transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩. Unrounded [ɑ] in some dialects. See Hungarian phonology
|
Ibibio |
dọ |
[dɒ̝́] |
'marry' |
Near-open; typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩.
|
Irish |
Ulster |
ólann |
[ɒ̝ːɫ̪ən̪ˠ] |
'(he) drinks' |
Near-open; may be transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔː⟩.
|
Istro-Romanian |
cåp |
[kɒp] |
'head' |
See Istro-Romanian pronunciation (in Romanian).
|
Jeju[26]
|
|
ᄒᆞ나/hawna
|
[hɒna]
|
"one"
|
See Jeju phonology
|
Lehali |
dön̄ |
[ⁿdɒ̝ŋ] |
'yam' |
Raised vowel, being the back rounded counterpart of /æ/ in a symmetrical vowel inventory.
|
Lemerig |
‘ān̄sār |
[ʔɒ̝ŋsɒ̝r] |
'person' |
Raised vowel, being the back rounded counterpart of /æ/ in a symmetrical vowel inventory.
|
Limburgish |
Maastrichtian |
plaots |
[plɒ̝ːts] |
'place' |
Near-open fully back; typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔː⟩. Corresponds to [ɔː] in other dialects.
|
Malay
|
Kedah
|
tua
|
[tu.ɒ]
|
'old'
|
Northern Kedah subdialect/dialect. Allophone of /a/ in word-final position in open-ended words and close-ended words that end with a glottal stop /ʔ/ or a glottal fricative /h/.
|
Neapolitan[30]
|
Vastese
|
uâʃtə
|
[uˈwɒʃtə]
|
'Vasto'
|
|
Norwegian |
Urban East |
topp |
[tʰɒ̝pː] |
'top' |
Near-open, also described as close-mid back [o]. Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩. See Norwegian phonology
|
Dialects along the Swedish border |
hat |
[hɒ̜ːt] |
'hate' |
Weakly rounded and fully back. See Norwegian phonology
|
Persian
|
فارسی / fârsi
|
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
|
'Persian'
|
|
Brazilian Portuguese
|
Carioca
|
ova
|
['ɒ'ː.va]
|
|
Slovak |
Some speakers |
a |
[ɒ] |
'and' |
Under Hungarian influence, some speakers realize the short /a/ as rounded. See Slovak phonology
|
Swedish |
Central Standard[36] |
jаg |
[jɒ̝ːɡ] |
'I' |
Near-open fully back weakly rounded vowel.[36] Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɑː⟩. See Swedish phonology
|
Gothenburg |
[jɒːɡ] |
More rounded than in Central Standard Swedish.
|
Uzbek |
Standard[38] |
choy |
[t͡ʃɒj] |
'tea' |
|
Yoruba |
itọju |
[itɒ̝ju] |
'care' |
Near-open; most often transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɔ⟩.
|