Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | Standard | قطة | 'cat' | Allophone of long and short /a/ before a word boundary. See Arabic phonology | |
| Bulgarian | ъгъл | 'angle' | See Bulgarian language | ||
| Catalan | Barcelona metropolitan area |
se | 'itself' | Typically transcribed as /ə/. See Catalan phonology | |
| Chinese | Cantonese | 心 sam1 | 'heart' | See Cantonese phonology | |
| Danish | spiser | 'eat(s)' (present) | See Danish phonology | ||
| Dawsahak | 'to give' | ||||
| Dutch | Limburg | letter | 'letter' | Not all dialects. Corresponds to /ər/ in standard Dutch. See Dutch phonology | |
| The Hague | |||||
| English | California | nut | 'nut' | ⟨ʌ⟩ may be used to transcribe this vowel as it corresponds to /ʌ/ in some other dialects. In South Africa it may be as open as for some speakers. See English phonology | |
| New Zealand | |||||
| RP | |||||
| South African | |||||
| Inland North America | bet | 'bet' | Variation of /ɛ/ used in some places whose accents have undergone the Northern cities vowel shift. | ||
| German | oder | 'or' | Reduced vowel. See German phonology | ||
| Korean | 발 | 'foot' | More often transcribed with ⟨a⟩. See Korean phonology | ||
| Portuguese | Fluminense | cana-de-açúcar | 'sugarcane' | In complementary distribution with /a/. Raised to in other variants (where it is a phoneme). See Portuguese phonology | |
| General Brazilian | |||||
| European | pão | 'bread' | Stressed vowel, mostly as a phonemic nasal vowel (when not followed by a nasal stop). Raised otherwise | ||
| Russian | голова | 'head' | Occurs mostly immediately before stressed syllables. See Russian phonology | ||
| Vietnamese | ăn | 'to eat' | See Vietnamese phonology | ||
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