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Open Back Unrounded Vowel IPA - Unicode> | align="center" style="font-size: 24px"| | | IPA - image | | | X-SAMPA | align="center"|A | | Kirshenbaum | align="center"|A | | colspan="2"|Sound sample | The open back unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is A. The symbol is called script a because it lacks the extra hook on top of a printed letter 'a', which corresponds to a different vowel, the open front unrounded vowel. Script a, which has its linear stroke on the right, should not be confused with turned script a , which has its linear stroke on the left and corresponds to an rounded version of this vowel, the open back rounded vowel. Features of this vowel: - Its vowel height is open, which means the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.
- Its vowel backness is back, which means the tongue is positioned as far back as possible in the mouth in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant
- Its vowel roundedness is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded.
This vowel occurs in English, and is the sound represented by the letter a in bra. In North American English, it is also the sound of the letter o in not, and in non-rhotic varieties of English, like British English, it is the sound of the letters ar in cart.
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