Occurrence
Most, if not all, languages have some form of an unrounded open vowel. For languages that have only a single low vowel, the symbol for this vowel may be used because it is the only low vowel whose symbol is part of the basic Latin alphabet. Whenever marked as such, the vowel is closer to a central than to a front .
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adyghe | дахэ | 'pretty' | ||||
| Arabic | Levantine | بان | 'he/it appeared' | See Arabic phonology | ||
| Bengali | পা pa | 'leg' | See Bengali phonology | |||
| Catalan | Majorcan | sac | 'sack' | Corresponds to in other varieties. See Catalan phonology | ||
| Chinese | Cantonese | 沙 saa1 | 'sand' | See Cantonese phonology | ||
| Mandarin | 他 tā | 'he' | See Mandarin phonology | |||
| English | Canadian | stack | 'stack' | Depending on the region, the quality may vary from front to central or even further back (in some Scottish and Ulster accents for example); the length may also vary. Many speakers may have (or even, in case of older RP speakers and some Southern English dialects) instead. For the Canadian vowel, see Canadian Shift. See also English phonology | ||
| Irish | ||||||
| Jamaican | ||||||
| Northern English | ||||||
| Received Pronunciation | ||||||
| Scottish | ||||||
| Southern English | ||||||
| Welsh | ||||||
| Cockney | stuck | 'stuck' | Can also be . | |||
| Inland Northern American | stock | 'stock' | See Northern cities vowel shift | |||
| Hebrew | דָּם | 'blood' | See Modern Hebrew phonology | |||
| German | Most dialects | Rat | 'advice' | In some dialects, this may actually be a back vowel. See German phonology | ||
| Bernese | drääje | 'turn' | See Bernese German phonology | |||
| Greek | ακακία akakía | 'acacia' | See Modern Greek phonology | |||
| Gujarati | શાંતિ shanti | 'peace' | See Gujarati phonology | |||
| Kabardian | дахэ | 'pretty' | ||||
| Lithuanian | namas | 'house' | ||||
| Macedonian | маса | 'table' | See Macedonian phonology | |||
| Malay | api | 'fire' | ||||
| North Frisian | braan | 'to burn' | ||||
| Polish | jajo | 'egg' | Fronted allophone of /a/ between palatal or palatalized consonants. See Polish phonology | |||
| Russian | там | 'there' | See Russian phonology | |||
| Spanish | Eastern Andalusian | las madres | 'the mothers' | Corresponds to in other dialects, but in these dialects they're distinct. See Spanish phonology | ||
| Murcian | ||||||
| Vietnamese | xa | 'gauze' | See Vietnamese phonology | |||
| Welsh | mam | 'mother' | See Welsh phonology | |||
| Zapotec | Tilquiapan | na | 'now' | |||
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