A with breve (Cyrillic)
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| Cyrillic letter А with breve | ||||||
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| Cyrillic alphabet | ||||||
| А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Ѓ | Д |
| Ђ | Е | Ѐ | Ё | Є | Ж | З |
| Ѕ | И | Ѝ | І | Ї | Й | Ј |
| К | Ќ | Л | Љ | М | Н | Њ |
| О | П | Р | С | Т | Ћ | У |
| Ў | Ф | Х | Ц | Ч | Џ | Ш |
| Щ | Ъ | Ы | Ь | Э | Ю | Я |
| Non-Slavic letters | ||||||
| Ӑ | Ӓ | Ә | Ӛ | Ӕ | Ҕ | Ӗ |
| Ғ | Ӷ | Ӏ | Ӂ | Җ | Ӝ | Ҙ |
| Ӟ | Ӡ | Ӣ | Ӥ | Ҋ | Ҡ | Қ |
| Ҟ | Ҝ | Ӄ | Ӆ | Ӎ | Ң | Ҥ |
| Ӊ | Ӈ | Ө | Ӫ | Ӧ | Ҧ | Ҏ |
| Ҫ | Ҷ | Ҹ | Ӵ | Ҽ | Ҿ | Ӌ |
| Ҩ | Ҳ | Һ | Ҭ | Ҵ | Ӳ | Ӯ |
| Ү | Ұ | Ӱ | Ӹ | Ҍ | Ӭ | |
| Archaic letters | ||||||
| Ҁ | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѻ | Ѣ | ІА |
| Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ |
| Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | ||||
A with breve (majuscule:Ӑ, miniscule:ă) is a Cyrillic letter used in the Chuvash language orthography.
[edit] Unicode
In the unicode character repertoire, the letter is called CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE and has a code 04D0 for a capital letter and 04D1 for the small one.
[edit] Phonetic value
The sound represented in Chuvash by ӑ is a back, low, rounded vowel [ɒ]. It is always reduced, and can occur stressed only in the first syllable of a polysyllabic word. This sound varies in its phonetic realization from a reduced /i/ or [ə] (the schwa-like sound 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 сăтел table, /stel/.
[edit] See also
- Ă, latin letter a with breve, visually indistinguishable
