Re: the sound [a]

Quoting Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>:

> Andreas wrote:
>
> "Um, according to a Turkish girl I spoke with, Turkish have a /a/~/A/
> distinction, or rather had - it's, according to her description, in the
> later stages of collapse now. She's no linguist, but in the example words
> she used, there certainly were some with [a] and some with [A]."
>
> Is [A] represented by â? I saw it in a Turkish name once. And I remember
> that "Colloquial Turkish" discussed a couple Turkish vowels with
> circumflexes... What's the other one?
>
> Just curious, if [A] is not represented by â, what do â (and the other
> circumflexed vowel) represent?
If I remember her explanation the right way around, 'a' is [A] and 'â' is [a].

                                            Andreas