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'''Ă''' ([[upper case]]) or '''ă''' ([[lower case]]), usually referred to in English as '''A-[[breve]]''', is a [[letter (alphabet)|letter]] used in standard [[Romanian language|Romanian]] |
'''Ă''' ([[upper case]]) or '''ă''' ([[lower case]]), usually referred to in English as '''A-[[breve]]''', is a [[letter (alphabet)|letter]] used in standard [[Romanian language|Romanian]] and [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]] [[orthography|orthographies]]. In Romanian, it is used to represent the [[mid central vowel|mid-central unrounded vowel]], while in Vietnamese it represents the short '''a''' sound. It is the second letter of the [[Romanian alphabet|Romanian]], [[Vietnamese alphabet|Vietnamese]], and the pre-1972 [[Malay alphabet|Malaysian]] alphabets, after [[A]]. |
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Ă/ă is also used in several languages for [[transliteration]] of [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] letter [[Hard sign|Ъ/ъ]]. |
Ă/ă is also used in several languages for [[transliteration]] of [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] letter [[Hard sign|Ъ/ъ]]. |
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Ă (upper case) or ă (lower case), usually referred to in English as A-breve, is a letter used in standard Romanian and Vietnamese orthographies. In Romanian, it is used to represent the mid-central unrounded vowel, while in Vietnamese it represents the short a sound. It is the second letter of the Romanian, Vietnamese, and the pre-1972 Malaysian alphabets, after A.
Ă/ă is also used in several languages for transliteration of Bulgarian letter Ъ/ъ.
Romanian
The sound represented in Romanian by ă is a mid-central vowel /ə/, i.e. schwa. Unlike in English, Catalan and French but like in Indonesian (using ā (a with macron) rather than ă, e.g. "diām" /diʌm/ (quiet)), Bulgarian, Albanian and Afrikaans, the vowel can be stressed. There are words in which it is the only vowel, such as "măr" /mər/ (apple) or "văd" /vəd/ (I see). Additionally, some words that also contain other vowels can have the stress on ă like "cărțile" /ˈkərt͡sile/ (the books) and "odăi" /oˈdəj/ (rooms).
Vietnamese
Ă is the 2nd letter of the Vietnamese alphabet and represents /a/. Because Vietnamese is a tonal language this letter may have any one of the 5 tonal symbols above or below it (or even no accent at all, since the Vietnamese first tone is identified by the lack of accent marks). See Vietnamese phonology.
- Ằ ằ
- Ắ ắ
- Ẳ ẳ
- Ẵ ẵ
- Ặ ặ
Malay
The sound represented in pre-1972 Malaysian orthography by ă is a vowel. It occurred in the final syllable of the root word such as lamă /lamə/ ("long", "old"), mată /matə/ ("eye"), and sană /sanə/ ("there"). The letter was replaced in 1972 with a in the New Rumi Spelling.
Khmer
Ă or ă are used in Khmer romanization, e.g. Preăh Réachéanachăk Kămpŭchéa (Kingdom of Cambodia).
Pronunciation respelling for English
In some systems for Pronunciation respelling for English including American Heritage Dictionary notation, ă represents the short A sound, /æ/.
Character mappings
Vorschau | ă | Ă | ||
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Unicode name | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 259 | U+0103 | 258 | U+0102 |
UTF-8 | 196 131 | C4 83 | 196 130 | C4 82 |
Numeric character reference | ă |
ă |
Ă |
Ă |
Named character reference | ă | Ă | ||
ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 | 259 | 103 | 258 | 102 |
See also
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- A with breve (Cyrillic), Cyrillic letter а with breve, visually indistinguishable
- Breve