Open front unrounded vowel
Phonetic and orthographic realization of the unrounded open front vowel tongue in different languages:
- French [ a]: a; i in the combination oi; e before mm, nn sometimes Examples: avoir [ avwaʀ ], déjà [ deʒa ], lapin [ lapɛ ] femme [ fam ]
- The ( long as the short ) in a German is a central vowel - not a front vowel.