A with breve (Cyrillic)
Cyrillic letter used in Chuvash and Khanty
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A with breve (Ӑ ӑ; italics: Ӑ ӑ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It may be a homoglyph of the Latin letter A with breve (Ă ă Ă ă) unless the typeface distinguishes between the Latin and Cyrillic breve.
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [ə], [ɐ], [ɤ] |
It is used in the Chuvash and in both Eastern Khanty and Northern Khanty alphabets. It appears in some Nenets dictionaries as well.[1]
In certain orthographical varieties of Bulgarian, such as in the Primer with Various Instructions, this letter was used for the sound /ɤ/. In modern Bulgarian, this sound is represented by the letter Ъ.[2]
Usage
In Chuvash, ⟨ӑ⟩ represents the mid central vowel [ə], as ⟨a⟩ in word "era". It is always reduced and can occur stressed only in the first syllable of a polysyllabic word. The sound varies in its phonetic realization from a reduced /i/ or [ə] (like the pronunciation of ⟨a⟩ in English "sofa") to a labialized version of the ⟨a⟩ in English "all" (with rounded lips). It is sometimes so reduced as to sound coalesced with the following consonant as in сӑтел table, /stel/.
Computing codes
| Preview | Ӑ | ӑ | ||
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| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1232 | U+04D0 | 1233 | U+04D1 |
| UTF-8 | 211 144 | D3 90 | 211 145 | D3 91 |
| Numeric character reference | Ӑ | Ӑ | ӑ | ӑ |
See also
- А а : Cyrillic letter A
- Ă ă : Latin letter A with breve - a Romanian and Vietnamese letter