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186 relations: A (Cyrillic), A with breve (Cyrillic), A-list, Aardvark, Afrikaans, Aleph, Algebra, Alpha, Alphabet, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek, Angstrom, Ansuz (rune), Argentine austral, Armenian alphabet, Article (grammar), ASCII, At sign, Australian English, Ayb (Armenian letter), Azerbaijani language, À, Á, Â, Ã, Ä, Å, Æ, Ā, Ă, Ą, Bar (diacritic), Bashkir language, Blackletter, Bra, Bulgarian language, Carolingian minuscule, Caron, Catalan dialects, Catalan language, Chemnitz dialect, Chuvash language, CJK characters, Close-mid front unrounded vowel, Code point, Combining character, Consonant, Coptic script, Cursive, Cyrillic script, ... Expand index (136 more) »
- ISO basic Latin letters
A (Cyrillic)
А (А а; italics: А а) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. A and a (Cyrillic) are vowel letters.
A with breve (Cyrillic)
A with breve (Ӑ ӑ; italics: Ӑ ӑ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. A and a with breve (Cyrillic) are vowel letters.
See A and A with breve (Cyrillic)
A-list
An A-list actor is a major movie star, or one of the most bankable actors in a film industry.
See A and A-list
Aardvark
Aardvarks (Orycteropus afer) are medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammals native to Africa.
See A and Aardvark
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
See A and Afrikaans
Aleph
Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʾālep 𐤀, Hebrew ʾālef א, Aramaic ʾālap 𐡀, Syriac ʾālap̄ ܐ, Arabic ʾalif ا, and North Arabian 𐪑. A and Aleph are vowel letters.
See A and Aleph
Algebra
Algebra is the branch of mathematics that studies algebraic structures and the manipulation of statements within those structures.
See A and Algebra
Alpha
Alpha (uppercase, lowercase) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. A and alpha are vowel letters.
See A and Alpha
Alphabet
An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language.
See A and Alphabet
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Angstrom
The angstrom is a unit of length equal to m; that is, one ten-billionth of a metre, a hundred-millionth of a centimetre, 0.1 nanometre, or 100 picometres.
See A and Angstrom
Ansuz (rune)
Ansuz is the conventional name given to the a-rune of the Elder Futhark,.
Argentine austral
The austral was the currency of Argentina between June 15, 1985, and December 31, 1991.
Armenian alphabet
The Armenian alphabet (Հայոց գրեր, Hayocʼ grer or Հայոց այբուբեն, Hayocʼ aybuben) or, more broadly, the Armenian script, is an alphabetic writing system developed for Armenian and occasionally used to write other languages.
Article (grammar)
In grammar, an article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases.
ASCII
ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
See A and ASCII
At sign
The at sign,, is an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget.
See A and At sign
Australian English
Australian English (AusE, AusEng, AuE, AuEng, en-AU) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Australia.
Ayb (Armenian letter)
Ayb (majuscule: Ա; minuscule: ա; Armenian: այբ) is the first letter of the Armenian alphabet.
See A and Ayb (Armenian letter)
Azerbaijani language
Azerbaijani or Azeri, also referred to as Azeri Turkic or Azeri Turkish, is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch.
See A and Azerbaijani language
À
À, à (a-grave) is a letter of the Catalan, Emilian-Romagnol, French, Italian, Maltese, Occitan, Portuguese, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, and Welsh languages consisting of the letter A of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and a grave accent.
See A and À
Á
Á, á (a-acute) is a letter of the Chinese (Pinyin), Blackfoot, Czech, Dutch, Faroese, Filipino, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Karakalpak, Lakota, Navajo, Occitan, Portuguese, Sámi, Slovak, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh and Western Apache languages as a variant of the letter a.
See A and Á
Â
Â, â (a-circumflex) is a letter of the Inari Sami, Skolt Sami, Romanian, Vietnamese and Mizo alphabets.
See A and Â
Ã
A with tilde (majuscule: Ã, minuscule: ã) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the tilde diacritic over the letter A. It is used in Portuguese, Guaraní, Kashubian, Taa, Aromanian, and Vietnamese.
See A and Ã
Ä
Ä (lowercase ä) is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter A with an umlaut mark or diaeresis. A and Ä are vowel letters.
See A and Ä
Å
The letter Å(å in lower case) represents various (although often very similar) sounds in several languages. A and Å are vowel letters.
See A and Å
Æ
Æ (lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. A and Æ are vowel letters.
See A and Æ
Ā
Ā, lowercase ā ("A with macron"), is a grapheme, a Latin A with a macron, used in several orthographies.
See A and Ā
Ă
Ă (upper case) or ă (lower case), usually referred to in English as A-breve, is a letter used in standard Romanian and Vietnamese orthographies.
See A and Ă
Ą
Ą (minuscule: ą) is a letter in the Polish, Kashubian, Lithuanian, Creek, Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua, Osage, Hocąk, Mescalero, Gwich'in, Tutchone, and Elfdalian alphabets.
See A and Ą
Bar (diacritic)
A bar or stroke is a modification consisting of a line drawn through a grapheme.
Bashkir language
Bashkir or Bashkort (translit) is a Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak branch.
Blackletter
Blackletter (sometimes black letter or black-letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 until the 17th century.
Bra
A bra, short for brassiere or brassière, is a form-fitting underwear that is primarily used to support and cover a woman's breasts.
See A and Bra
Bulgarian language
Bulgarian (bŭlgarski ezik) is an Eastern South Slavic language spoken in Southeast Europe, primarily in Bulgaria.
Carolingian minuscule
Carolingian minuscule or Caroline minuscule is a script which developed as a calligraphic standard in the medieval European period so that the Latin alphabet of Jerome's Vulgate Bible could be easily recognized by the literate class from one region to another.
See A and Carolingian minuscule
Caron
A caron is a diacritic mark commonly placed over certain letters in the orthography of some languages to indicate a change of the related letter's pronunciation.
See A and Caron
Catalan dialects
The Catalan dialects feature a relative uniformity, especially when compared to other Romance languages; both in terms of vocabulary, semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology.
Catalan language
Catalan (or; autonym: català), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: valencià), is a Western Romance language.
Chemnitz dialect
Chemnitz dialect is a distinct German dialect of the city of Chemnitz and an urban variety of Vorerzgebirgisch, a variant of Upper Saxon German.
Chuvash language
Chuvash (Чӑвашла) is a Turkic language spoken in European Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas.
CJK characters
In internationalization, CJK characters is a collective term for graphemes used in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, which each include Chinese characters.
Close-mid front unrounded vowel
The close-mid front unrounded vowel, or high-mid front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
See A and Close-mid front unrounded vowel
Code point
A code point, codepoint or code position is a particular position in a table, where the position has been assigned a meaning.
See A and Code point
Combining character
In digital typography, combining characters are characters that are intended to modify other characters.
Consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
See A and Consonant
Coptic script
The Coptic script is the script used for writing the Coptic language, the most recent development of Egyptian.
Cursive
Cursive (also known as joined-up writing) is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block letters.
See A and Cursive
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.
Czech language
Czech (čeština), historically also known as Bohemian (lingua Bohemica), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script.
Danish language
Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark.
Diacritic
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph.
See A and Diacritic
Diphthong
A diphthong, also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.
See A and Diphthong
Dot (diacritic)
When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot refers to the glyphs "combining dot above", because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.
Double grave accent
The double grave accent because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.
Dutch dialects
Dutch dialects are primarily the dialects that are both cognate with the Dutch language and spoken in the same language area as the Dutch standard language.
Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.
Eau (trigraph)
Eau is a trigraph which occurs in some languages that use the Latin script, such as French and English.
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language.
See A and Egyptian hieroglyphs
Emilian dialects
Emilian (Reggian, Parmesan and Modenese: emigliân, Bolognese: emigliàn; emiliano) is a Gallo-Italic unstandardised language spoken in the historical region of Emilia, which is now in the western part of Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy.
English alphabet
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms.
English articles
The articles in English are the definite article the and the indefinite articles a and an.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
English language in Northern England
The spoken English language in Northern England has been shaped by the region's history of settlement and migration, and today encompasses a group of related accents and dialects known as Northern England English (or, simply, Northern (English) in the United Kingdom).
See A and English language in Northern England
English language in Southern England
English in Southern England (also, rarely, Southern English English; Southern England English; or in the UK, simply, Southern English) is the collective set of different dialects and accents of Modern English spoken in Southern England.
See A and English language in Southern England
English orthography
English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning.
English-language vowel changes before historic /r/
In English, many vowel shifts affect only vowels followed by in rhotic dialects, or vowels that were historically followed by that has been elided in non-rhotic dialects.
See A and English-language vowel changes before historic /r/
Etruscan alphabet
The Etruscan alphabet was used by the Etruscans, an ancient civilization of central and northern Italy, to write their language, from about 700 BC to sometime around 100 AD.
Etruscan civilization
The Etruscan civilization was an ancient civilization created by the Etruscans, a people who inhabited Etruria in ancient Italy, with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states.
See A and Etruscan civilization
Ȧ
Ȧ (minuscule: ȧ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from A with the addition of a dot above the letter.
See A and Ȧ
Finnish language
Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.
First-order logic
First-order logic—also called predicate logic, predicate calculus, quantificational logic—is a collection of formal systems used in mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science.
French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
French orthography
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.
Galician language
Galician (galego), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language.
General American English
General American English, known in linguistics simply as General American (abbreviated GA or GenAm), is the umbrella accent of American English spoken by a majority of Americans, encompassing a continuum rather than a single unified accent.
See A and General American English
Geometry
Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures.
See A and Geometry
German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
German orthography
German orthography is the orthography used in writing the German language, which is largely phonemic.
Glottal stop
The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis.
Gothic alphabet
The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet used for writing the Gothic language.
Great Vowel Shift
The Great Vowel Shift was a series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700, beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialects of English.
Greek alphabet
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.
Greek Dark Ages
The Greek Dark Ages (1200–800 BC), were earlier regarded as two continuous periods of Greek history: the Postpalatial Bronze Age (c. 1200–1050 BC) and the Prehistoric Iron Age or Early Iron Age (c. 1050–800 BC), which included all the ceramic phases from the Protogeometric to the Middle Geometric I and lasted until the beginning of the Protohistoric Iron Age around 800 BC.
Halfwidth and fullwidth forms
In CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) computing, graphic characters are traditionally classed into fullwidth and halfwidth characters.
See A and Halfwidth and fullwidth forms
Hamza
The hamza (هَمْزَة) is an Arabic script character that, in the Arabic alphabet, denotes a glottal stop and, in non-Arabic languages, indicates a diphthong, vowel, or other features, depending on the language.
See A and Hamza
Handwriting
Handwriting is the personal and unique style of writing with a writing instrument, such as a pen or pencil in the hand.
Hexadecimal
In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base-16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of sixteen.
Homoglyph
In orthography and typography, a homoglyph is one of two or more graphemes, characters, or glyphs with shapes that appear identical or very similar but may have differing meaning.
See A and Homoglyph
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language of the proposed Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries.
Indo-European studies
Indo-European studies (Indogermanistik) is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct.
See A and Indo-European studies
Indonesian language
Indonesian is the official and national language of Indonesia.
Insular script
Insular script is a medieval script system originating from Ireland that spread to England and continental Europe under the influence of Irish Christianity.
International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.
See A and International Phonetic Alphabet
Inverted breve
Inverted breve or arch is a diacritical mark, shaped like the top half of a circle (̑), that is, like an upside-down breve (˘).
ISO/IEC 8859
ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings.
Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
Italian Peninsula
The Italian Peninsula (Italian: penisola italica or penisola italiana), also known as the Italic Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula or Italian Boot, is a peninsula extending from the southern Alps in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south, which comprises much of the country of Italy and the enclaved microstates of San Marino and Vatican City.
Italic type
In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting.
Kaingang language
The Kaingang language (also spelled Kaingáng) is a Southern Jê language (Jê, Macro-Jê) spoken by the Kaingang people of southern Brazil.
Kazakh language
Kazakh or Qazaq is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia by Kazakhs.
Kedah Malay
Kedah Malay or Kedahan (also known as Pelat Utara or Loghat Utara 'Northern Dialect') or as it is known in Thailand, Syburi Malay (Phasa Malāyū Saiburī) is a Malayic language mainly spoken in the northwestern Malaysian states of Perlis, Kedah, Penang, and northern Perak and in the southern Thai provinces of Trang and Satun.
Kurdish language
Kurdish (Kurdî, کوردی) is a Northwestern Iranian language or group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, namely in Turkey, northern Iraq, northwest and northeast Iran, and Syria.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
See A and Latin
Latin alpha
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). A and Latin alpha are vowel letters.
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.
Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
Letter (alphabet)
In a writing system, a letter is a grapheme that generally corresponds to a phoneme—the smallest functional unit of speech—though there is rarely total one-to-one correspondence between the two.
Letter case
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (or more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages.
Ligature (writing)
In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph.
Limburgish
Limburgish (Limburgs or Lèmburgs; Limburgs; Limburgisch; Limbourgeois), also called Limburgan, Limburgian, or Limburgic, is a West Germanic language spoken in Dutch Limburg, Belgian Limburg, and neighbouring regions of Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia).
See A and Limburgish
Line (geometry)
In geometry, a straight line, usually abbreviated line, is an infinitely long object with no width, depth, or curvature, an idealization of such physical objects as a straightedge, a taut string, or a ray of light.
Line segment
In geometry, a line segment is a part of a straight line that is bounded by two distinct end points, and contains every point on the line that is between its endpoints.
List of Latin-script digraphs
This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets.
See A and List of Latin-script digraphs
Lithuanian language
Lithuanian is an East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.
Luxembourgish
Luxembourgish (also Luxemburgish, Luxembourgian, Letzebu(e)rgesch; Lëtzebuergesch) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg.
Maastrichtian dialect
Maastrichtian (Mestreechs) or Maastrichtian Limburgish (Mestreechs-Limbörgs) is the dialect and variant of Limburgish spoken in the Dutch city of Maastricht alongside the Dutch language (with which it is not mutually intelligible).
See A and Maastrichtian dialect
Malay language
Malay (Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand.
Mapuche language
Mapuche (from mapu 'land' and che 'people', meaning 'the people of the land') or Mapudungun (from mapu 'land' and dungun 'speak, speech', meaning 'the speech of the land'; also spelled Mapuzugun and Mapudungu) is an Araucanian language related to Huilliche spoken in south-central Chile and west-central Argentina by the Mapuche people.
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols is a Unicode block comprising styled forms of Latin and Greek letters and decimal digits that enable mathematicians to denote different notions with different letter styles.
See A and Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
Merovingian script
Merovingian script or Gallo-Roman script (Scriptura Merovingica/Francogallica) was a medieval variant of the Latin script so called because it was developed in Gaul during the Merovingian dynasty.
Mid central vowel
The mid central vowel (also known as schwa) is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
Middle English phonology
Middle English phonology is necessarily somewhat speculative, since it is preserved only as a written language.
See A and Middle English phonology
Motivation
Motivation is an internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal-directed behavior.
See A and Motivation
Near-open central vowel
The near-open central vowel, or near-low central vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
See A and Near-open central vowel
New Zealand English
New Zealand English (NZE) is the variant of the English language spoken and written by most English-speaking New Zealanders.
Obsolete and nonstandard symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) possesses a variety of obsolete and nonstandard symbols.
See A and Obsolete and nonstandard symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet
Old Italic scripts
The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used in the Italian Peninsula between about 700 and 100 BC, for various languages spoken in that time and place.
Open back rounded vowel
The open back rounded vowel, or low back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
See A and Open back rounded vowel
Open back unrounded vowel
The open back unrounded vowel, or low back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
See A and Open back unrounded vowel
Open central unrounded vowel
The open central unrounded vowel, or low central unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in many spoken languages.
See A and Open central unrounded vowel
Open front unrounded vowel
The open front unrounded vowel, or low front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
See A and Open front unrounded vowel
Open-mid back rounded vowel
The open-mid back rounded vowel, or low-mid back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
See A and Open-mid back rounded vowel
Open-mid back unrounded vowel
The open-mid back unrounded vowel or low-mid back unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
See A and Open-mid back unrounded vowel
Ordinal indicator
st described below is intentional and is different from the style 1st --> In written languages, an ordinal indicator is a character, or group of characters, following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number, rather than a cardinal number.
Perak Malay
Perak Malay (Bahase Peghok or Ngelabun Peghok; Standard Malay: bahasa Melayu Perak; Jawi script: بهاس ملايو ڤيراق) is one of the Malay dialects spoken within the state of Perak, Malaysia.
Phoenician alphabet
The Phoenician alphabet is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC.
Pictogram
A pictogram (also pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto) is a graphical symbol that conveys meaning through its visual resemblance to a physical object.
See A and Pictogram
Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.
See A and Pinyin
Polish language
Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.
Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
Portuguese orthography
Portuguese orthography is based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla to denote stress, vowel height, nasalization, and other sound changes.
See A and Portuguese orthography
Precomposed character
A precomposed character (alternatively composite character or decomposable character) is a Unicode entity that can also be defined as a sequence of one or more other characters.
See A and Precomposed character
Proto-Sinaitic script
The Proto-Sinaitic script is a Middle Bronze Age writing system known from a small corpus of about 30-40 inscriptions and fragments from Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula, as well as two inscriptions from Wadi el-Hol in Middle Egypt.
See A and Proto-Sinaitic script
Received Pronunciation
Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent traditionally regarded as the standard and most prestigious form of spoken British English.
See A and Received Pronunciation
René Descartes
René Descartes (or;; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.
Ring (diacritic)
A ring diacritic may appear above or below letters.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Rune
A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples.
See A and Rune
Russian language
Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.
Saanich dialect
Saanich (also Sənčáθən, written as SENĆOŦEN in Saanich orthography and pronounced) is the language of the First Nations Saanich people in the Pacific Northwest region of northwestern North America.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (– 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
Schwa (Cyrillic)
Schwa (Ә ә; italics: Ә ә) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, derived from the Latin letter schwa.
Serif
In typography, a serif is a small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke in a letter or symbol within a particular font or family of fonts.
See A and Serif
Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
Spanish orthography
Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.
Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
Stavangersk
Stavangersk, Stavanger dialect or Stavanger Norwegian (Stavangersk, Stavanger-dialekt (Bokmål) or Stavangerdialekt (Nynorsk)) is a dialect of Norwegian used in Stavanger.
Swedish language
Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.
Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).
See A and Syllable
Tagalog language
Tagalog (Baybayin) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority.
Tau
Tau (uppercase Τ, lowercase τ or \boldsymbol\tau; ταυ) is the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless dental or alveolar plosive.
See A and Tau
Terengganu Malay
Terengganu Malay (Bahasa Melayu Terengganu; Terengganu Malay) is a Malayic language spoken in the Malaysian state of Terengganu all the way southward to coastal Pahang and northeast Johor.
Teuthonista
Teuthonista is a phonetic transcription system used predominantly for the transcription of (High) German dialects.
The Times of Israel
The Times of Israel is an Israeli multi-language online newspaper that was launched in 2012.
Transylvanian varieties of Romanian
The Transylvanian varieties of Romanian (subdialectele / graiurile ardelene) are a group of dialects of the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian).
See A and Transylvanian varieties of Romanian
Triangle
A triangle is a polygon with three corners and three sides, one of the basic shapes in geometry.
See A and Triangle
Turkish alphabet
The Turkish alphabet (Türk alfabesi) is a Latin-script alphabet used for writing the Turkish language, consisting of 29 letters, seven of which (Ç, Ğ, I, İ, Ö, Ş and Ü) have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language.
Turned A
Turned A (capital: Ɐ, lowercase: ɐ, math symbol ∀) is a letter and symbol based upon the letter A.
See A and Turned A
Turned v
Turned v (majuscule: Ʌ, minuscule: ʌ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, based on a turned form of the letter V. It is used in the orthographies of Dan, Ch’ol, Nankina, Northern Tepehuán, Temne, Oneida, and Wounaan and also some orthographies of Ibibio.
See A and Turned v
Ugaritic
Ugaritic is an extinct Northwest Semitic language, classified by some as a dialect of the Amorite language.
See A and Ugaritic
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian (label) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Ukraine.
Ulster Irish
Ulster Irish is the variety of Irish spoken in the province of Ulster.
Uncial script
Uncial is a majusculeGlaister, Geoffrey Ashall.
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.
See A and Unicode
Unicode subscripts and superscripts
Unicode has subscripted and superscripted versions of a number of characters including a full set of Arabic numerals.
See A and Unicode subscripts and superscripts
Universal quantification
In mathematical logic, a universal quantification is a type of quantifier, a logical constant which is interpreted as "given any", "for all", or "for any".
See A and Universal quantification
Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (UPA) or Finno-Ugric transcription system is a phonetic transcription or notational system used predominantly for the transcription and reconstruction of Uralic languages.
See A and Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
Variable (mathematics)
In mathematics, a variable (from Latin variabilis, "changeable") is a symbol that represents a mathematical object.
See A and Variable (mathematics)
Visigothic script
Visigothic script was a type of medieval script that originated in the Visigothic Kingdom in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula).
Vowel
A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
See A and Vowel
West Frisian language
West Frisian, or simply Frisian (Frysk or Westerlauwersk Frysk; Fries, also Westerlauwers Fries), is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland (Fryslân) in the north of the Netherlands, mostly by those of Frisian ancestry.
See A and West Frisian language
X-SAMPA
The Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at University College London.
See A and X-SAMPA
Ya (Cyrillic)
Ya, Ia or Ja (Я я; italics: Я я) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, the civil script variant of Old Cyrillic Little Yus, and possibly Iotated A.
Zeta–Raška dialect
The Zeta–Raška dialect (Zetsko–raški dijalekt / Зетско–рашки дијалект) is a dialect of Štokavian / Serbo-Croatian.
See also
ISO basic Latin letters
References
Also known as A (letter), ASCII 65, ASCII 97, Double-storey a, Double-story a, Letter A, LetterA, Lowercase a, Single-storey a, Single-story a, The Letter A, U+0041, U+0061, \x41, .