A with breve (Ӑ ӑ; italics: Ӑ ӑ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It may be a homoglyph of the Latin letter A with breve (Ă ă Ă ă) unless the typeface distinguishes between the Latin and Cyrillic breve.
It is used in the Chuvash and in both Eastern Khanty and Northern Khanty alphabets. It appears in some Nenets dictionaries as well.
In certain orthographical varieties of Bulgarian, such as in the Primer with Various Instructions, this letter was used for the sound /ɤ/. In modern Bulgarian, this sound is represented by the letter Ъ.
Usage In Chuvash, represents the mid central vowel , as in word "era". It is always reduced and can occur stressed only in the first syllable of a polysyllabic word. The sound varies in its phonetic realization from a reduced or (like the pronunciation of in English "sofa") to a labialized version of the in English "all" (with rounded lips). It is sometimes so reduced as to sound coalesced with the following consonant as in сӑтел table, .
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See also А а : Cyrillic letter A Ă ă : Latin letter A with breve - a Romanian and Vietnamese letter
References
External links Unicode Character 'CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE' (U+04D0) Unicode Character 'CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE' (U+04D1)