Â

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Â, â (a-circumflex) is a letter of the Romanian and Vietnamese alphabets. This letter also appears in Croatian, French, Portuguese, Serbian, Frisian, Welsh Language, Friulian, Turkish and Walon language as a variant of the letter “a”.

Contents 1 Usage in various languages 1.1 Croatian and Serbian 1.2 Romanian 1.3 Vietnamese 1.4 Turkish 1.5 Ukrainian 1.6 Portuguese 1.7 Welsh 2 Character mappings 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Usage in various languages

[edit] Croatian and Serbian

<â> is not a letter in the Croatian and Serbian, but simply <a> with the circumflex. It appears only in a few words, and denotes the sound /aː/ (ordinary <a> denotes /a/). Â is used in distinguishing words such as in the sentence "Ja sam sâm." (English: I am alone.). Its sort order is obscure, since no Croatian or Serbian word uses it as the first letter and it merely serves to distinguish some verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

[edit] Romanian

 is the 3rd letter of the Romanian alphabet and represents /ɨ/. This sound is also represented in Romanian as letter î.

[edit] Vietnamese

 is the 3rd letter of the Vietnamese alphabet and represents /ɜ/. In Vietnamese phonology, diacritics can be added to form the following five forms to represent five tones of â.

• Ầ ầ
• Ẩ ẩ
• Ẫ ẫ
• Ấ ấ
• Ậ ậ

[edit] Turkish

 letter, is used to soften the letter "A". Especially, in "Âdet" (Tradition) "Kâğıt" (Paper). But it's not useful today's Turkish daily life. Because of using A letter instead of Â.

[edit] Ukrainian

 is used in the ISO 9:1995 system of Ukrainian transliteration as the letter Я.

[edit] Portuguese

 is used for indicating stressed syllables. Its IPA value is /ɐ/ (in Brazilian Portuguese /ɐ͂/ when it is before nasal consonants).

[edit] Welsh

 is used to represent the /ɑː/ sound.

[edit] Character mappings

Charset	Unicode	ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16
Majuscule Â	U+00C2	C2
Minuscule â	U+00E2	E2

[edit] See also

• Circumflex

[edit] External links

• Omniglot - writing systems & languages of the world
  • Romanian language
  • Vietnamese language

The ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
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