A with macron (Cyrillic)

A with macron
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Sound values[ɑː]

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),[1] Evenki, Ingush, Mansi, Nanai, Orok, Ulch, Kildin Sami, Selkup, and Chechen languages.

A with macron also appears in the Bulgarian and Serbian languages in some dialects.[2]

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.[2][3]

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).

Character information
PreviewАа̄
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A COMBINING MACRON
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechex
Unicode1040U+04101072U+0430772U+0304
UTF-8208 144D0 90208 176D0 B0204 132CC 84
Numeric character referenceААаа̄̄
Named character referenceАа

See also

References

  1. ↑ Головко, Е. В. (1994). Словарь алеутско-русский и русско-алеутский (беринговский диалект) [Aleut-Russian and Russian-Aleut Dictionary (Bering dialect)]. Отд-ние изд-ва "Просвещение". p. 14. ISBN 5-09-002312-3.
  2. 1 2 "Accent in Bulgarian dialects". October 25, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Bulgarian dialects". May 9, 2013.