Â
Â, â (a-circumflex) is a letter of the Friulian, Romanian, Vietnamese, French, Galician, Portuguese, Frisian, Welsh, Turkish, and Walloon alphabets.
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[edit] Usage in various languages
[edit] Berber languages
"â" can be used in Berber Latin alphabet to represent [ʕ].
[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 exclusive to) the plural genitive case, thus the name "genitive sign" for the circumflex and is pronounced as a long vowel. 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 |
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| 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] French
 in the French language is used as the letter "a" with a circumflex accent. It is a remnant of old French, where a vowel was followed by the consonant "s". For example, the modern form bâton (English: stick) comes from the ancient French baston. Phonetically, "â" is pronounced as /ɑ/, but only in dialects that distinguish it from /a/.
[edit] Friulian
 is used to represent the /ɑː/ sound.
[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
 was used to soften the letter "A" (not anymore though, according to the Turkish Language Association -although it is still commonly used-). Such as in "Adet" (Pieces) "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 /ɐ/ in stressed syllables (/ɐ̃/ when it is before the nasal consonants m and n).
[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 |
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| Majuscule  | U+00C2  latin capital letter a with circumflex (HTML:  Â) |
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| Minuscule â | U+00E2 â latin small letter a with circumflex (HTML: â â) |
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[edit] TeX and LaTeX
 and â are obtained by the commands \^A and \^a.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
| Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | ||
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Letter A with diacritics
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| Áá | Àà | Ăă | Ắắ | Ằằ | Ẵẵ | Ẳẳ | Ââ | Ấấ | Ầầ | Ẫẫ | Ẩẩ | Ǎǎ | Åå | Ǻǻ | Ää | Ǟǟ | Ãã | Ȧȧ | Ǡǡ | Ąą | Āā | Ảả | Ȁȁ | Ȃȃ | Ạạ | |
| Ặặ | Ậậ | Ḁḁ | Ⱥⱥ | ᶏ | Ɐɐ | Ɑɑ | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Letters using circumflex accent ( ◌̂ )
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| Ââ | Ĉĉ | Êê | Ĝĝ | Ĥĥ | Î î | Ĵĵ | Ôô | Ŝŝ | Ûû | Ŵŵ | Ŷŷ | Ẑẑ | ||||||||||||||
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