Italian a

== English == === Noun === Italian a (plural Italian a's) (phonetics, orthoepy) The speech sound represented by the letter A in the Italian language. The open central unrounded vowel (IPA: [ä]). === Further reading === Herbert Penzl (1940), “The Vowel-Phonemes in Father, Man, Dance in Dictionaries and New England Speech”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 39, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 13–32