International Phonetic Alphabet, General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages
Phonetic usage
[ɑ]
Unicode codepoint
U+2C6D, U+0251
History
Development
A a/Α α
Ɑ ɑ
Time period
1890s to present
Sisters
A, Ɒ
Other
Writing direction
Left-to-Right
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Latin alpha (majuscule: Ɑ, minuscule: ɑ), script a, or single-story a, is a letter of the Latin alphabet based on one lowercase form of a, or on the Greek lowercase alpha (α).
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