A with macron (Cyrillic)
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A with macron (А̄ а̄; italics: А̄ а̄) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In all its forms it looks exactly like the Latin letter A with macron (Ā ā Ā ā).
A with macron is used in the Aleut (Bering dialect),{{cite book |last=Головко |first=Е. В. |year=1994 |title=Словарь алеутско-русский и русско-алеутский (беринговский диалект) |trans-title=Aleut-Russian and Russian-Aleut Dictionary (Bering dialect) |page=14 |publisher=Отд-ние изд-ва "Просвещение" |isbn=5-09-002312-3}} Evenki, Ingush, Mansi, Nanai, Orok, Ulch, Kildin Sami, Selkup, and Chechen languages.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}
A with macron also appears in the Bulgarian and Serbian languages in some dialects.
Usage
=South Slavic languages=
A with macron is used in the South Slavic languages mostly in Bulgarian usually used before or after another stressed vowel: глāвà, крāкà, овчāрè, ковāчè, юнāцѝ, and граждāнè.{{cite web | url=http://lyudmilantonov.blogspot.com/2011/08/accent-in-bulgarian-dialects.html | title= Accent in Bulgarian dialects | date= October 25, 2012 }}{{cite web | url=http://lyudmilantonov.blogspot.com/2009/05/bulgarian-dialects-bulgarian-balgarski.html | title= Bulgarian dialects | date= May 9, 2013 }}
Computing codes
Being a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter А̄ is not represented directly by a precomposed character in Unicode either; it has to be composed as А+◌̄ (U+0304).
{{Charmap|0410|0430|0304|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter A|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter A|name3=Combining Macron}}
See also
- A a : Latin letter A
- Ā ā : Latin letter A with macron - a Latvian, Latgalian, Livonian, and Samogitian letter
- А а : Cyrillic letter А
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References
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