Latin alpha

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The letter Latin alpha with a lowercase Greek alpha shape, as in the African reference alphabet or the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages.
The letter Latin alpha with a script-a shape, as in the International phonetic Alphabet.
The letter A.

Latin alpha (majuscule: , minuscule: ɑ) or script a is a letter of the Latin alphabet, based on one lowercase form of a, or on the Greek lowercase alpha (α). Although ⟨ɑ⟩ is normally just an allograph of ⟨a⟩, there are instances in which the two letters must be carefully distinguished:

[edit] Encoding

The minuscule form was present in Unicode 1.0, as U+0251 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT A. In version 1.1.5, its name was changed to LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA.

The majuscule form is present in Unicode 5.1 as U+2C6D.

[edit] See also

  • Turned a discusses the turned Latin alpha


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