/ɑ/

To make an /ɑ/ sound, the mouth is quite open. There’s a little bit of rounding in the lips, but not much. Let’s take a look at some examples before a voiceless consonant: gosh Gothic block hock moth watch sauce And before a voiced consonant: lodging audit cause gauze wall flaw long And let’s take a look at some example sentences: Gosh! What modern lodgings! and Don uh, I can’t even say this. Don is a Gothic bog hog. Don’t ask me what that is. I have absolutely no idea. If you like’d some more practice, take a look below the video.