A with diaeresis (Ӓ ӓ; italics: ''Ӓ ӓ'') is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In all its forms it looks exactly like the

Latin letter A with diaeresis Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

(Ä ä ''Ä ä''). It is used in the Khanty, Kildin Sami, and Hill Mari languages. Also, this letter was once used in the

Gagauz language Gagauz (, ) is a Turkic language spoken by the Gagauz people of Moldova, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey and it is an official language of the Autonomous Region of Gagauzia in Moldova. Gagauz belongs to the Oghuz branch of Turkic languages, alongsi ...

(which was substituted with ). This letter also appears in

Serbian Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe * someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people * Serbian language * Serbian names See also

* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

in some of its dialects.

Usage

In Hill Mari and Gagauz this letter represents the

near-open front unrounded vowel The near-open front unrounded vowel, or near-low front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a lowercase of the ligature. Bot ...

, . In Kildin Sami this letter represents the

open back unrounded vowel The open back unrounded vowel, or low back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is A. The l ...

following a palatalized (sometimes also called "half-palatalized") velar nasal or one of the alveolar stops or . In Khanty this letter represents the

near-open central vowel The near-open central vowel, or near-low central vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a rotated lowercase double-barrelled letter a. ...

. Some languages represent as , like in letter "Я". A with diaeresis is used in some

South Slavic languages The South Slavic languages are one of three branches of the Slavic languages. There are approximately 30 million speakers, mainly in the Balkans. These are separated geographically from speakers of the other two Slavic branches (West and East) ...

, mainly in the Serbian language to be used for easily shifting the accents in the above languages not only in declensions but elsewhere: брӓт.

Computing codes

References

{{Cyrillic-alphabet-stub Cyrillic letters with diacritics Letters with diaeresis