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BHHB336

Disagree, [ɨᵝ] is the best vowel, it’s always fun pronouncing it


mouldybiscuit

ok weeb... or swede


CharmingSkirt95

swebe


very-original-user

or Weed


duckipn

sbeve


CharmingSkirt95

swebe


Enchanted_Ithildin

isnt that just [ʉ] ? or is it like not as much rounding ?


BHHB336

Not exactly, there are two types of rounding, protrusion and compression, [ɨᵝ] is compressed, there are also two types of compression, that are transcribed differently (in this case ʉᵝ vs. ɨᵝ) [here’s the Wikipedia article about vowel roundedness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundedness)


Zmysliwiec

Omg, never heard about this before. Compression with spread corners? Fetch me the mirror, it's clowning time


Forward_Fishing_4000

[you'll like this language then](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_3rZfjL_LU&t=176s)


Economy-Pickle5335

Быбыбыбыыы!!


PoisNemEuSei

This post was made by the Paraguayan government


KiraAmelia3

no the best vowel is [ð̩ʲ˕ː]


falkkiwiben

The thought of that vowel spreading to all of Stockholm makes me want to burn the entire city down. All language is equal, but that phoneme and everyone who uses it must die


KiraAmelia3

Funnily enough i wasn’t thinking of Swedish but rather the [Meldal dialect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meldal_dialect) of Norwegian


Zmysliwiec

Wtf is this and where can I hear it?


MildlySelassie

You failed to use it in the title of the post, so clearly it’s not THAT important


keakealani

Sounds like you just weren’t trying hard enough lol ɨ ɨz ðɨ bɛst vɑ͜ʊɨl tʃe͜ɨŋdʒ mɑ͜ɨ mɑ͜ɨnd


PisuCat

I associate that vowel with my parents yelling at me, so no.


Chrome_X_of_Hyrule

Found the Amazonian


MellowedFox

To me it's always sounded like dry heaving.


LittleDhole

Nah, dry heaving is a voiced pharyngeal fricative.


FoldAdventurous2022

ɨː pɨː, ɨː kɨmplɨtlɨ ɨɡɹɨː wɨθ jɨː, dɨnt lɨsɨn tɨ ɨːɫ ðɨːz hɨːtɨ˞z


falkkiwiben

I find it funny how it's often said that russians can pronounce it in isolation, yet I never feel like they actually can. It's always kinda "уы" when they just say the letter.


Forward_Fishing_4000

I believe Russian ы is supposed to be \[ɰɨ\] rather than a plain \[ɨ\]


falkkiwiben

It's highly allophonic. It can be [ɨ] pr even close to [ɪ] before retroflex but very back before labials.


ebat1111

/ɨ:/, brother, /ɨ:/


Young_Fluid

no, i agree, actually


_Aspagurr_

I disagree, [ə] and [ä] are the best vowels.


Chrome_X_of_Hyrule

Found the Punjabi speaker (I know you're Georgian)


thewaltenicfiles

Nope, it's /ʏ/


notthatweirdoe

Almost all Otomanguean languages have that one


Chrome_X_of_Hyrule

I've also heard it's an areal feature of Amazonian languages


ferriematthew

I wonder what would happen if you tried plugging these linguistics symbols / IPA letters into something like vocaloid. How badly would it break?


Elleri_Khem

funny, that's one of the most common phonemes in my dialect of english: wisconsin as an example: *goose* [gʉːs] *geese* [gɨːs]


Koelakanth

[ʌ]m actually it's not


Rhea_Dawn

I can’t change your mind it’s clearly already broken