Ā (Indic)
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| Bengali–Assamese | |
| Tibetan | ཨཱ |
| Tamil | |
| Thai | า |
| Malayalam | ആ |
| Sinhala | ආ |
| Ashoka Brahmi | |
| Devanagari | |
| Cognates | |
| Hebrew | א |
| Greek | Α |
| Latin | A, Ɑ |
| Cyrillic | А, Я, Ҍ |
| Properties | |
| Phonemic representation | /ɑː/ /aː/ |
| IAST transliteration | ā Ā |
| ISCII code point | A5 (165) |
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Ā is a vowel of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, Aa is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter after having gone through the Gupta letter . As an Indic vowel, "Ā" comes in two normally distinct forms: 1) as an independent letter, and 2) as a vowel sign for modifying a base consonant. Bare consonants without a modifying vowel sign have the inherent short "A" vowel.
