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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, Slovenian, Frisian, Welsh, Friulian, Turkish, and Walon language as a variant of the letter “a”.

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[edit] Usage in various languages

[edit] Croatian and Serbian

"â" is not a letter in the Croatian and Serbian, but simply an "a" with the circumflex. It is used only occasionally, in order to disambiguate homographs which differ only by length of the vowel. Such situation is most common in (but not excusive to) the genitive case, thus the name "genitive sign" for the circumflex. For example, "Ja sam sâm." (English: I am alone.)

[edit] Faroese

Johan Henrik Schrøter, who translated the Gospel of Matthew into Faroese in 1823, used â to denote a non-syllabic a, as in the following example:

Schrøter 1817 Modern Faroese
Brinhlid situr uj gjiltan Stouli,
Teâ hit veâna Vujv,
Drevur hoon Sjúra eâv Nordlondun
Uj Hildarhaj tiil sujn.		 Brynhild situr í gyltum stóli,
tað hitt væna vív,
dregur hon Sjúrða av Norðlondum
í Hildarheið til sín.

 is not used in modern Faroese, however.

[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". Such as in "Âdet" (Tradition) "Kâğıt" (Paper).

[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  U+00C2 C2
Minuscule â U+00E2 E2

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

The Basic modern 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
Letter A with diacritics
Letters using circumflex accent

history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters • ISO/IEC 646
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