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Latin alpha

Latin alpha (Majuscule: , Minuscule: ) or script a, is a letter of the Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
, based on one lowercase form of a

The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English language is a ; the plural is aes or, more commonly, a's....
, or on the Greek

Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th century BC or early 8th century BCE....
lowercase alpha

Alpha

Alpha may refer to:...
(a). Although normally the letter a admits variation, it must be carefully distinguished from where both are used.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet

International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet "The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic....
, represents an open back unrounded vowel

Open back unrounded vowel

The open back unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is A....
, while represents an open front unrounded vowel

Open front unrounded vowel

The open front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is a....
.

, is a letter in the alphabet of the Fe'fe' language

Fe'fe' language

Fe'fe or Fe'efe'e, also known as Nufi and Bafang, is a Southern Bantoid languages language spoken in Cameroon, around the town of Bafang....
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Latin alpha (Majuscule: , Minuscule: ) or script a, is a letter of the Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English language is a ; the plural is aes or, more commonly, a's....
, or on the Greek

Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th century BC or early 8th century BCE....
lowercase alpha

Alpha

Alpha may refer to:...
(a). Although normally the letter a admits variation, it must be carefully distinguished from where both are used.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet

International Phonetic Alphabet

Open back unrounded vowel

Open front unrounded vowel

Fe'fe' language

Fe'fe or Fe'efe'e, also known as Nufi and Bafang, is a Southern Bantoid languages language spoken in Cameroon, around the town of Bafang....
. Its uppercase form is simply an enlarged version of the lowercase.

Encoding

The minuscule form was present in Unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate Character expressed in most of the world's writing systems....
1.0, as U+0251 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT A. In version 1.1.5, its name was changed to LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA. The majuscule form is present in Unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate Character expressed in most of the world's writing systems....
5.1 as U+2C6D.

Latin alpha

Encoding

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