Pronounciation of the Latin alphabet letter <U>It’s pronounced [u] in most ortho

Pronounciation of the Latin alphabet letter It’s pronounced [u] in most orthographies, but in French, Occitan, Azorean and inner-central European Portuguese, Dutch, Afrikaans, Icelandic and Occitan, represents [y]. In Afrikaans it also represents the more common [œ].In Swedish, Norwegian, Somali, Faroese, Southern Sami, Ume Sami, Maori, Madeiran Portuguese and Californian English it’s central [ʉ]. In English it has a variety of values namely [ʌ] as in “cut”, [juː] as in “music” and [ʊ] as in “put”. Less commons values are: [ɪ] as in “busy” or [ɛ] as in “bury”.In Northern Welsh it’s [ɨ] and in Southern Welsh it’s [i].  -- source link
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