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It is also used in the [[Ingush language|Ingush]] and [[Chechen language|Chechen]] languages to represent /ɑ/ and /ə/.
It is also used in the [[Ingush language|Ingush]] and [[Chechen language|Chechen]] languages to represent /ɑ/ and /ə/.
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|rowspan=2|[[Unicode]]||[[Majuscule|Capital]]||align="right"|1040||align="right"|0410||align="right"|002020||align="right"|0000010000010000
 
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|rowspan=2|[[ISO 8859-5|ISO 8859-5]]||Capital||align="right"|176||align="right"|b0||align="right"|260||align="right"|10110000
 
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|rowspan=2|[[KOI 8|KOI 8]]||Capital||align="right"|225||align="right"|e1||align="right"|341||align="right"|11100001
 
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|rowspan=2|[[Windows 1251|Windows 1251]]||Capital||align="right"|192||align="right"|c0||align="right"|300||align="right"|11000000
 
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Revision as of 02:44, 5 September 2011

Cyrillic alphabet
А Б В Г Ґ Д Ђ
Ѓ Е Ѐ Ё Є Ж З
Ѕ И Ѝ І Ї Й Ј
К Л Љ М Н Њ О
П Р С Т Ћ Ќ У
Ў Ф Х Ц Ч Џ Ш
Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ Ӓ Ә Ӛ Ӕ Ғ Ҕ
Ӻ Ӷ Ԁ Ԃ Ӗ Ӂ Җ
Ӝ Ԅ Ҙ Ӟ Ԑ Ӡ Ԇ
Ӣ Ҋ Ӥ Қ Ӄ Ҡ Ҟ
Ҝ Ԟ Ԛ Ӆ Ԓ Ԡ Ԉ
Ԕ Ӎ Ӊ Ң Ӈ Ҥ Ԣ
Ԋ Ӧ Ө Ӫ Ҩ Ҧ Ҏ
Ԗ Ҫ Ԍ Ҭ Ԏ Ӯ Ӱ
Ӳ Ү Ұ Ҳ Ӽ Ӿ Һ
Ҵ Ҷ Ӵ Ӌ Ҹ Ҽ Ҿ
Ӹ Ҍ Ӭ Ԙ Ԝ Ӏ  
Archaic letters
Ҁ Ѻ Ѹ Ѡ Ѿ Ѣ
Ѥ Ѧ Ѫ Ѩ Ѭ Ѯ
Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ    
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

A (А, а; italics А, а) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.

It commonly represents an open front unrounded vowel /a/.

In the romanization systems for the Russian, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian languages it is romanized using the Latin letter A.

Letter А in ABC by Elisabeth Bohm
Letter А in ABC by Elisabeth Bohm

Contents

History

The Cyrillic letter A was derived directly from the Greek letter Alpha (Α, α).

In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was Template:Script (azǔ), meaning 'I'.

In the Cyrillic numeral system, the Cyrillic letter A had a value of 1.

Form

Through 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 forms.

Usage

In most languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet – such as Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian – the Cyrillic letter A represents an open front unrounded vowel /a/.

It is also used in the Ingush and Chechen languages to represent /ɑ/ and /ə/.


See also

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