The open central unrounded vowel is used in approximately 23 different languages from around the world according to the International Phonetic Association.
While the International Phonetic Alphabet officially has no dedicated letter for this sound between front a and back , it is normally written a. If precision is required, it can be specified by using diacritics, typically centralized a. Burmese [ma] Chinese [ta Czech [prax] Danish [pn] Dutch [za] English [b] [tap] [tap] French [pat] German [kats] Hungarian [lab] Italian [kasa] Japanese [ka Limburgish [zak] Lithuanian [rats] Polish [kat Portuguese [va] Romanian [kal] Serbo-Croatian [pas] Spanish [rata] Swedish [bak] Thai [ba.kk (help) Turkish [at] Welsh [arad] Yoruba 
