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ISO basic Laitin alphabet Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Cursive script 'a' and capital 'A' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

A aw [ɑ:, ɔ:, N. I. a:],^[1] plural aws is the first letter an vouel in the ISO basic Laitin alphabet. It is seemilar tae the Auncient Greek letter alphae that it comes frae.

The erest for certain forebeir o the letter A is the Phoenician aleph (whiles scrievit 'aleph), the first letter o the Phoenicial alphabet^[2], whaurfrae the seemilar Greek, Etruscan an Roman letters. Aleph itsel mey be ultimately frae the Egyptian hieroglyphic o an ox's heid bi a Proto-Semitic^[3] seemplification.

Egyptian hieroglyph ox	Proto-Semitic A	Phoenician  aleph	Greek Alpha	Etruscan A	Roman A

• Α α : Greek letter Alpha
• А а : Cyrillic letter A
• Ɑ ɑ : Laitin letter Alpha / Script A (or: A a)
• ɐ : a turned lawercase letter A, uised bi the Internaitional Phonetic Alphabet for the near-open central vowel
• ∀ : a turned caipital letter A, uised in predicate logic tae specify universal quantification ("for aw")
• ª : an ordinal indicator
• Æ æ : Laitin letter Æ ligature

¹ An aa for encodins based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.

NATO phonetic	Morse code
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• History o the Alphabet Archived 2021-04-10 at the Wayback Machine
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• • "A" in A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
  • Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "A" (entry). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  • "A". The New Student's Reference Work. Chicago: F. E. Compton and Co. 1914.
  • "A". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.