A

A
ISO basic Laitin alphabet

Cursive script 'a' and capital 'A' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

A aw [ɑ:, ɔ:, N. I. a:],^[1] 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[eedit | eedit soorce]

The erest for certain forebeir o the letter A is the Phoenician aleph (whiles scrievit 'aleph), the first letter o the Phoenicial alphabet^[2], 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^[3] seemplification.

Egyptian hieroglyph ox	Proto-Semitic A	Phoenician aleph	Greek Alpha	Etruscan A	Roman A

Sib letters an ither seemilar chairacters[eedit | eedit soorce]

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[eedit | eedit soorce]

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[eedit | eedit soorce]

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Alpha	·–

		[[File:Sign language {{{fingerspelling}}}.svg\|90px]]
Seegnal banner	Banner semaphore	American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin)	Braille dots-1

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

↑ "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 2 Julie 2013. Retrieved 3 Julie 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "A". Encyclopædia Britannica (in Inglis). 1: A-ak–Bayes. Chicago, IL: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.
↑ Hall-Quest, Olga Wilbourne (1997). "A". In Johnston, Bernard (ed.). Collier's Encyclopedia (in Inglis). I: A to Ameland (First ed.). New York, NY: P.F. Collier. p. 1.

Freemit airtins[eedit | eedit soorce]

History o the Alphabet

- "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 v t e
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	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
Related
Derivations Diacritics History ISO/IEC 646 Leet o letters Numerals Palaeography Punctuation Unicode

[1] "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 2 Julie 2013. Retrieved 3 Julie 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[Britannica-2] Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "A". Encyclopædia Britannica (in Inglis). 1: A-ak–Bayes. Chicago, IL: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.

[Collier's-3] Hall-Quest, Olga Wilbourne (1997). "A". In Johnston, Bernard (ed.). Collier's Encyclopedia (in Inglis). I: A to Ameland (First ed.). New York, NY: P.F. Collier. p. 1.

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