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This article is about the Latin letter. For the visually identical Cyrillic letter, see A with breve (Cyrillic).
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. In Romanian, it is used to represent the mid-central unrounded vowel, while in Vietnamese it represents the short a sound. It is the second letter of the Romanian, Vietnamese, and the pre-1972 Malaysian alphabets, after A.
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Ă/ă is also used in several languages for transliteration of the Bulgarian letter Ъ/ъ.[1]