But for English speakers, there are many, many ways to interpret and pronounce that very Latin "A".
Many languages are strictly phonetic and their orthography has a very strict 1:1 ratio of glyph:sound. English is not one of those!
So in English, while we have five glyphs for the main vowels, those five glyphs have extremely versatile interpretations when actually converting into the spoken words.
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But for English speakers, there are many, many ways to interpret and pronounce that very Latin "A".
Many languages are strictly phonetic and their orthography has a very strict 1:1 ratio of glyph:sound. English is not one of those!
So in English, while we have five glyphs for the main vowels, those five glyphs have extremely versatile interpretations when actually converting into the spoken words.