The mid back unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. There is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the exact mid back unrounded vowel between close-mid and open-mid , because no language is known to distinguish all three, but is normally used. If more precision is desired, diacritics can be used, such as or .
Some of the vowels listed in the table below may phonetically be more front than typical back vowels, as near-back vowels. If precision is required, this may instead be called a mid near-back unrounded vowel.