Close-mid back unrounded vowel

The close-mid back unrounded vowel, or high-mid back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Its symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is, called "ram's horn." This symbol is distinct from the symbol for the voiced [velar fricative],, which has a descender, but some texts use this symbol for the voiced velar fricative.
Before the 1989 IPA Convention, the symbol for the close-mid back unrounded vowel was, sometimes called "baby gamma", which has a flat top; this symbol was in turn derived from and replaced the inverted small capital A,, that represented the sound before the History of [the International Phonetic Alphabet#1928 revisions|1928 revision] to the IPA. The symbol was again revised to be, "ram's horn", with a rounded top, in order to better differentiate it from the Latin gamma.
Unicode provides, but in some fonts this character may appear as a "baby gamma" instead. The superscript IPA version is. As of Unicode, there exists a capital ram's horn at .