A (Cyrillic)
А (Azǔ/Азъ) | |
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А а | |
(See below) А | |
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Usage | |
Writing system | Cyrillic script |
Type | Alphabetic |
Language of origin | Old Church Slavonic |
Sound values | [a] [ɑ] [ə] |
In Unicode | U+0410, U+0430 |
Alphabetical position | 1 Numerical value: 1 |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | ~900 to present |
Descendants | • Я |
Sisters | A Α α א ا ܐ አ Ա ա 𐌀 A ᴀ |
Transliterations | A (Latin script) |
Variations | (See below) А |
Other | |
Associated numbers | 1 |
Writing direction | Left-to-right |
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А (А а; italics: А а) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents an open central unrounded vowel /ä/, halfway between the pronunciation of ⟨a⟩ in "cat" and "father". The Cyrillic letter А is romanized using the Latin letter A.
History
[edit]The Cyrillic letter А was derived directly from the Greek letter Alpha (Α α). In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was азъ (azǔ), meaning "I". In the Cyrillic numeral system, the Cyrillic letter А has a value of 1.
Form
[edit]Throughout history, the Cyrillic letter А has had various shapes, but today is standardised on one that looks exactly like the Latin letter A, including the italic and lower case forms.
Usage
[edit]In most languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet – such as Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, Macedonian and Montenegrin – the Cyrillic letter А represents the open central unrounded vowel /a/. In Ingush and Chechen the Cyrillic letter А represents both the open back unrounded vowel /ɑ/ and the mid-central vowel /ə/. In Tuvan the letter can be written as a double vowel.[1][2]
Related letters and other similar characters
[edit]- A a : Latin letter A
- Á á : Latin letter Á
- Α α : Greek letter Alpha
- Ă ă : Latin letter A with Breve
- Â â : Latin letter A with Circumflex
- Ā ā : Latin letter A with Macron
- Æ æ : Latin letter Æ
- Ă ă : Latin letter A with breve
Computing codes
[edit]Preview | А | а | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1040 | U+0410 | 1072 | U+0430 |
UTF-8 | 208 144 | D0 90 | 208 176 | D0 B0 |
Numeric character reference | А |
А |
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Named character reference | А | а | ||
KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 225 | E1 | 193 | C1 |
CP 855 | 161 | A1 | 160 | A0 |
Windows-1251 | 192 | C0 | 224 | E0 |
ISO-8859-5 | 176 | B0 | 208 | D0 |
Mac Cyrillic | 128 | 80 | 224 | E0 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Tuvan language, alphabet and pronunciation". omniglot.com. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- ^ Campbell, George L.; King, Gareth (24 July 2013). Compendium of the World's Languages. Routledge. ISBN 9781136258459. Retrieved 14 June 2016 – via Google Books.