A with tilde (А̃ а̃; italics:
''А̃ а̃'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
. In all its forms it
looks identical to the
Latin letter A with tilde (Ã ã
''Ã ã'').
Usage
A with tilde is used only in the alphabet of the
Khinalug language
Khinalug (also spelled Khinalig, Khinalugi, Xinalug(h), Xinaliq or Khinalugh) is a Northeast Caucasian languages, Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 3,000 people in the villages of Khinalug and Gülüstan, Quba in the mountains of Quba ...
where it represents a
nasalized
In phonetics, nasalization (or nasalisation in British English) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth. An archetypal nasal sound is .
...
open back unrounded vowel
The open back unrounded vowel, or low back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some Speech, spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is A ...
/ɑ̃/.
[Khinalug (каьтш мицI / kätš micʼ)]
/ref>
In Unicode
There is no precomposed character
A precomposed character (alternatively composite character or decomposable character) is a Unicode entity that can also be defined as a sequence of one or more other characters. A precomposed character may typically represent a letter with a diac ...
codepoint for this grapheme. It is generated using combined with .
See also
*à ã : Latin letter à - a Portuguese and Silesian letter
*Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version , Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU+A64 ...
References
[Khinalug (каьтш мицI / kätš micʼ)]
/ref>
Cyrillic letters with diacritics
Letters with tilde
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