A (Indic)

A
A
Example glyphs
Bengali–AssameseA
TibetanA
TamilA
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka BrahmiA
DevanagariA
Cognates
Hebrewא
GreekΑ
LatinA, Ɑ
CyrillicА, Я, Ҍ
Properties
Phonemic representation/ɐ/ /ə/ /ɔ/ /o/D /ɔː/E /ɑː/F
IAST transliterationa A
ISCII code pointA4 (164)

^D in Thai
^E in Thai
^F in Khmer

A is a vowel of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, A is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter ng after having gone through the Gupta letter . Bare consonants without a modifying vowel sign have the "A" vowel inherently, and thus there is no modifier sign for "A" in Indic scripts.