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A aw , plural aws is the first letter an vouel in the ISO basic Laitin alphabet.
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I. a:], plural aws is the first letter an vouel in the ISO basic Laitin alphabet. It is seemilar tae the Auncient Greek letter alphae that it comes frae.
History
The erest for certain forebeir o the letter A is the Phoenician aleph (whiles scrievit 'aleph), the first letter o the Phoenicial alphabet, whaurfrae the seemilar Greek, Etruscan an Roman letters. Aleph itsel mey be ultimately frae the Egyptian hieroglyphic o an ox's heid bi a Proto-Semitic seemplification.
| Egyptian hieroglyph ox | Proto-Semitic A | Phoenician aleph | Greek Alpha | Etruscan A | Roman A |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Sib letters an ither seemilar chairacters
- Α α : Greek letter Alpha
- А а : Cyrillic letter A
- Ɑ ɑ : Latin letter Alpha / Script A (or: A a)
- ɐ : a turned lawercase letter A, uised bi the Internaitional Phonetic Alphabet for the near-open central vowel
- ∀ : a turned caipital letter A, uised in predicate logic tae specify universal quantification ("for aw")
- ª : an ordinal indicator
- Æ æ : Latin letter Æ ligature
Computin codes
| Character | A | a | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LAITIN CAIPITAL LETTER A | LAITIN SMAW LETTER A | ||
| Encodins | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 65 | U+0041 | 97 | U+0061 |
| UTF-8 | 65 | 41 | 97 | 61 |
| Numeric chairacter reference | A | A | a | a |
| EBCDIC faimily | 193 | C1 | 129 | 81 |
| ASCII 1 | 65 | 41 | 97 | 61 |
- 1 An aa for encodins based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.
Ither representations
| NATO phonetic | Morse code |
| Alpha |
 |  | [[File:Sign language {{{fingerspelling}}}.svg|90px]] |  |
| Seegnal banner | Banner semaphore | American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin) | Braille dots-1 |
References
Freemit airtins
- "A" in A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "A" (entry). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- "A". The New Student's Reference Work. Chicago: F. E. Compton and Co. 1914.
- "A". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.
The ISO basic Laitin alphabet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | ||
Letter A with diacritics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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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