At 6:14:22 PM on Friday, September 23, 2005, Patrick Ryan
wrote:
> [a] is not a front vowel.
Handbook of the International Phonetic Association, 1999, p.
166, is a table of IPA symbols, their names, a phonetic
description, the IPA number, the UCS code, and the AFII
code. The first line:
a Lower-case A Open front unrounded vowel 304 0061 E25B
^^^^
(Emphasis added.)
Brian