Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahtna | kuggaedi | 'mosquito' | |||
| Arabic | Standard | كتاب | 'book' | Allophone of /a/ in the environment of plain labial and coronal consonants as well as /j/. See Arabic phonology | |
| Azerbaijani | səs | 'sound' | |||
| Bengali | এক | 'one' | See Bengali phonology | ||
| Catalan | Majorcan | sec | 'I sit' | Typically transcribed as /ɛ/. See Catalan phonology | |
| Minorcan | |||||
| Valencian | |||||
| Danish | Dansk | 'Danish' | See Danish phonology | ||
| English | cat | 'cat' | Common for most dialects. In some accents, mainly in Northern England, Scotland, Ireland, it is transcribed as /a/. In other areas, mainly New Zealand, it is transcribed as /ɛ/. See English phonology | ||
| Finnish | mäki | 'hill' | See Finnish phonology | ||
| French | Quebec | hiver | 'winter' | Allophone of /ɛ/ before /ʁ/. See Quebec French phonology | |
| Greek | Macedonia | -- | See Modern Greek phonology | ||
| Thessaly | |||||
| Thrace | |||||
| Hindi | बैल | 'oxen' | See Hindi-Urdu phonology | ||
| Jalapa Mazatec | tsæ | 'guava' | |||
| Lithuanian | eglė | 'spruce tree' | |||
| Norwegian | lær | 'leather' | See Norwegian phonology | ||
| Persian | در | 'door' | See Persian phonology | ||
| Portuguese | Some dialects | pedra | 'stone' | Stressed vowel. In other dialects closer /ɛ/. See Portuguese phonology | |
| Russian | пять | 'five' | Allophone of /a/ between palatalized consonants. See Russian phonology | ||
| Sinhala | කැමති | 'to like' | |||
| Slovak | väzy | 'ligaments' | Somewhat rare pronunciation, with being more common. | ||
| Swedish | päron | 'pear' | Allophone of /ɛ/ before /r/. See Swedish phonology | ||
| Turkish | sen | 'you' | Allophone of /e/ before syllable-final /l m n ɾ/. See Turkish phonology | ||
| Vietnamese | Northern | pha | 'phase' | Some dialects. Corresponds to in other dialects. See Vietnamese phonology | |
| Yaghan | mæpi | 'reed' | |||
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