| А with breve | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [ə], [ɐ], [ɤ] |
A with breve (Ӑ ӑ; italics: Ӑ ӑ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It may be a homoglyph of the Latin letter A with breve (Ă ă Ă ă) unless the typeface distinguishes between the Latin and Cyrillic breve.
It is used in the Chuvash and in both Eastern Khanty and Northern Khanty alphabets. It appears in some Nenets dictionaries as well.[1]
In certain orthographical varieties of Bulgarian, such as in the Primer with Various Instructions, this letter was used for the sound /ɤ/. In modern Bulgarian, this sound is represented by the letter Ъ.[2]
Usage
In Chuvash, ⟨ӑ⟩ represents the mid central vowel [ə], as ⟨a⟩ in word "era". It is always reduced and can occur stressed only in the first syllable of a polysyllabic word. The sound varies in its phonetic realization from a reduced /i/ or [ə] (like the pronunciation of ⟨a⟩ in English "sofa") to a labialized version of the ⟨a⟩ in English "all" (with rounded lips). It is sometimes so reduced as to sound coalesced with the following consonant as in сӑтел table, /stel/.
Computing codes
| Preview | Ӑ | ӑ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1232 | U+04D0 | 1233 | U+04D1 |
| UTF-8 | 211 144 | D3 90 | 211 145 | D3 91 |
| Numeric character reference | Ӑ | Ӑ | ӑ | ӑ |
See also
- А а : Cyrillic letter A
- Ă ă : Latin letter A with breve - a Romanian and Vietnamese letter
References
- Tereščenko, Natalʹja Mitrofanovna (2005). Slovarʹ nenecko-russkij i russko-neneckij: okolo 6500 slov ; posobie dlja učaščichsja 1 - 4-ch klassov obščeobrazovatelʹnych učreždenij (3-e izd., ispr. i dop ed.). Sankt-Peterburg: Prosveščenie. ISBN 978-5-09-009175-6.
- ". Български: 133-та страница на Рибния буквар English: Beron's Primer with Various Instructions is the first modern Bulgarian primer. Used by children throughout the 19th century, it contained, in addition to the rules of grammar, general information about nature and basic arithmetic. The book is better known as the "Fish Primer" for the picture of the whale at the end. Beron is considered the father of modern Bulgarian. Beron primer page 14 Stock Photo". www.alamy.com. Retrieved 2024-12-01.