The open front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spokenlanguages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is a, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is a.
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 front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
