Â, â (a-circumflex) is a letter of the Romanian and Vietnamese alphabets. This letter also appears in Croatian, French, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovenian, Frisian, Welsh, Friulian, Turkish, and Walon language as a variant of the letter “a”.
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Usage in various languages
Croatian and Serbian
"â" is not a letter in the Croatian and Serbian, but simply an "a" with the circumflex. It is used only occasionally, in order to disambiguate homographs which differ only by length of the vowel. Such situation is most common in (but not excusive to) the genitive case, thus the name "genitive sign" for the circumflex. For example, "Ja sam sâm." (English: I am alone.)
Faroese
Johan Henrik Schrøter, who translated the Gospel of Matthew into Faroese in 1823, used â to denote a non-syllabic a, as in the following example:
| Schrøter 1817 | Modern Faroese |
|---|---|
| Brinhlid situr uj gjiltan Stouli, Teâ hit veâna Vujv, Drevur hoon Sjúra eâv Nordlondun Uj Hildarhaj tiil sujn. |
Brynhild situr í gyltum stóli, tað hitt væna vív, dregur hon Sjúrða av Norðlondum í Hildarheið til sín. |
 is not used in modern Faroese, however.
Romanian
 is the 3rd letter of the Romanian alphabet and represents /ɨ/. This sound is also represented in Romanian as letter î.
Vietnamese
 is the 3rd letter of the Vietnamese alphabet and represents /ɜ/. In Vietnamese phonology, diacritics can be added to form the following five forms to represent five tones of â.
- Ầ ầ
- Ẩ ẩ
- Ẫ ẫ
- Ấ ấ
- Ậ ậ
Turkish
 letter, is used to soften the letter "A". Such as in "Âdet" (Tradition) "Kâğıt" (Paper).
Ukrainian
 is used in the ISO 9:1995 system of Ukrainian transliteration as the letter Я.
Portuguese
 is used for indicating stressed syllables. Its IPA value is /ɐ/ (in Brazilian Portuguese /ɐ͂/ when it is before nasal consonants).
Welsh
 is used to represent the /ɑː/ sound.
Character mappings
| Charset | Unicode | ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 |
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| Majuscule  | U+00C2 | C2 |
| Minuscule â | U+00E2 | E2 |
See also
External links
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Letter A with diacritics
Letters using circumflex accent
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