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| Example glyphs | |
| Bengali–Assamese | &sq=&lang=&file=File:Bengali_Letter_A.svg){kind=small} |
| Tibetan | &sq=&lang=&file=File:Tibetan_A.svg){kind=small} |
| Tamil | &sq=&lang=&file=File:Tamil-alphabet-%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%85.svg){kind=small} |
| Thai | อ |
| Malayalam | അ |
| Sinhala | අ |
| Ashoka Brahmi | &sq=&lang=&file=File:Brahmi_a.svg){kind=small} |
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| 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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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 &sq=&lang=&file=File:Gupta_allahabad_a.svg){kind=small}
. Bare consonants without a modifying vowel sign have the "A" vowel inherently, and thus there is no modifier sign for "A" in Indic scripts.