A (Indic)
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A is a vowel of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, A is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter after having gone through the Gupta letter
. Bare consonants without a modifying vowel sign have the "A" vowel inherently, and thus there is no modifier sign for "A" in Indic scripts.
Quick Facts Example glyphs, Bengali–Assamese ...
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Example glyphs | |
Bengali–Assamese | ![]() |
Tibetan | ![]() |
Tamil | ![]() |
Thai | อ |
Malayalam | അ |
Sinhala | අ |
Ashoka Brahmi | ![]() |
Devanagari | ![]() |
Cognates | |
Hebrew | א |
Greek | Α |
Latin | A, Ɑ |
Cyrillic | А, Я, Ҍ |
Properties | |
Phonemic representation | /ɐ/ /ə/ /ɔ/ /o/D /ɔː/E /ɑː/F |
IAST transliteration | a A |
ISCII code point | A4 (164) |
^D in Thai ^E in Thai ^F in Khmer | |
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