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Â, â (a-circumflex) is a letter of the Romanian and Vietnamese alphabets. This letter also appears in Croatian, French, Portuguese, Serbian, Frisian, Welsh Language, 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 <a> with the circumflex. It appears only in a few words, and denotes the sound /aː/ (ordinary <a> denotes /a/). Â is used in distinguishing words such as in the sentence "Ja sam sâm." (English: I am alone.). Its sort order is obscure, since no Croatian or Serbian word uses it as the first letter and it merely serves to distinguish some verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
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". Especially, in "Âdet" (Tradition) "Kâğıt" (Paper). But it's not useful today's Turkish daily life. Because of using A letter instead of Â.
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
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Letter A with diacritics
Letters using circumflex accent
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