A with breve (Cyrillic)

A with breve (Cyrillic)

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A with breve (majuscule:Unicode|Ӑ, minuscule:Unicode|ă) is a Cyrillic letter used in the Chuvash language orthography.

Unicode

In the Unicode character repertoire, the letter is called CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE and has a code 04D0 for a capital letter and 04D1 for the small one.

Phonetic value

The sound represented in Chuvash by Unicode|ӑ is a back, low, rounded vowel IPA| [ɒ] . It is always reduced, and can occur stressed only in the first syllable of a polysyllabic word. This sound varies in its phonetic realization from a reduced IPA|/i/ or IPA| [ə] (the schwa-like sound of a in English sofa) to a labialized version of the a in English all (with rounded lips). It is sometimes so reduced as to sound coalesced with the following consonant as in сăтел "table", IPA|/stel/.

See also

*Ă, Latin letter a with breve, visually indistinguishable.


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