Concept
Ă
Overview
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 the Bulgarian letter Ъ/ъ.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Related ideas
- French language
- Orthography
- Romanian language
- A
- Vietnamese language
- Indonesian language
- English language
- Breve
- Â
Place in the tradition
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