Â, â (a-circumflex) is a letter of the Romanian and Vietnamese alphabets. This letter also appears in Croatian, French, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovenian, Frisian, Welsh, Friulian, Turkish, and Walon language as a variant of the letter “a”.

Contents 1 Usage in various languages 1.1 Croatian and Serbian 1.2 Faroese 1.3 Romanian 1.4 Vietnamese 1.5 Turkish 1.6 Ukrainian 1.7 Portuguese 1.8 Welsh 2 Character mappings 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Usage in various languages

[edit] Croatian and Serbian

"â" is not a letter in the Croatian and Serbian, but simply an "a" with the circumflex. It is used only occasionally, in order to disambiguate homographs which differ only by length of the vowel. Such situation is most common in (but not excusive to) the genitive case, thus the name "genitive sign" for the circumflex. For example, "Ja sam sâm." (English: I am alone.)

[edit] Faroese

Johan Henrik Schrøter, who translated the Gospel of Matthew into Faroese in 1823, used â to denote a non-syllabic a, as in the following example:

Schrøter 1817	Modern Faroese
Brinhlid situr uj gjiltan Stouli, Teâ hit veâna Vujv, Drevur hoon Sjúra eâv Nordlondun Uj Hildarhaj tiil sujn.	Brynhild situr í gyltum stóli, tað hitt væna vív, dregur hon Sjúrða av Norðlondum í Hildarheið til sín.

 is not used in modern Faroese, however.

[edit] Romanian

 is the 3rd letter of the Romanian alphabet and represents /ɨ/. This sound is also represented in Romanian as letter î.

[edit] Vietnamese

 is the 3rd letter of the Vietnamese alphabet and represents /ɜ/. In Vietnamese phonology, diacritics can be added to form the following five forms to represent five tones of â.

• Ầ ầ
• Ẩ ẩ
• Ẫ ẫ
• Ấ ấ
• Ậ ậ

[edit] Turkish

 is used to soften the letter "A". Such as in "Âdet" (Tradition) "Kâğıt" (Paper).

[edit] Ukrainian

 is used in the ISO 9:1995 system of Ukrainian transliteration as the letter Я.

[edit] Portuguese

 is used for indicating stressed syllables. Its IPA value is /ɐ/ (in Brazilian Portuguese /ɐ͂/ when it is before nasal consonants).

[edit] Welsh

 is used to represent the /ɑː/ sound.

[edit] Character mappings

Charset	Unicode	ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16
Majuscule Â	U+00C2	C2
Minuscule â	U+00E2	E2

[edit] See also

• Circumflex

[edit] External links

• Omniglot - writing systems & languages of the world
  • Romanian language
  • Vietnamese language

The Basic modern Latin alphabet
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
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