Re: the sound [a]

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?

Trebor.

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