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This article is about the Roman letter. For the article in English,
see A (word). For other uses, see A (disambiguation).

For technical reasons, "A#" redirects here. For A-sharp, see A-

sharp (disambiguation).

A or a is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the modern

English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.[1] Its name in
English is a (pronounced /ˈeɪ/), plural aes.[nb 1] It is similar in shape
to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives.[2] The
uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle,
crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version
can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-
storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts Usage
based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is
also found in italic type. Writing Latin script
In the English grammar, "a", and its variant "an", are indefinite system
articles.

Type Alphabetic and Logo

Contents graphic

 1History Language of Latin language

origin
o 1.1Typographic variants

 2Use in writing systems Phonetic [a]

usage [ɑ]
o 2.1English
[ɒ]
o 2.2Other languages [æ]

[ə]
o 2.3Other systems
[ɛ]
 3Other uses [oː]

[ɔ]
 4Related characters
[e]
o 4.1Descendants and related characters in the Latin [ʕ]
alphabet
[ʌ]
o 4.2Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations /eɪ/

o 4.3Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets

Unicode value U+0041,
U+0061

Alphabetical 1

position Numerical value: 1

 5Computing codes

 6Other representations

 7Notes

 8Footnotes

 9References

 10External links