GabrielleM - 30-12-2025 at 05:20 PM
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Other sounds of this letter are in the words father, which developed into another sound, such as in the word ace. The letter 'A' was in the Phoenician
alphabet's aleph.
⟨a⟩ is the third-most-commonly used letter in English after ⟨e⟩ and ⟨t⟩, as well as in French; it is the
second most common in Spanish, and the most common in Portuguese. However, ⟨a⟩ occurs in many common digraphs, all with their own sound
or sounds, particularly ⟨ai⟩, ⟨au⟩, ⟨aw⟩, ⟨ay⟩, ⟨ea⟩ and ⟨oa⟩.
There are some other cases aside from italic type where script a ⟨ɑ⟩, also called Latin alpha, is used in contrast with Latin
⟨a⟩, such as in the International Phonetic Alphabet. The Roman form ⟨a⟩ is found in most printed material, and consists of
a small loop with an arc over it. In the hands of medieval Irish and English writers, this form gradually developed from a 5th-century form resembling
the Greek letter tau ⟨τ⟩.
But an also occurs though less frequently now than formerly. A similar fronting of this sound took place in the Ionic-Attic dialects of Greek, where
sounds derive from the a-sound and represented in other dialects by a are represented by η. Sound 3 represents a stage in the development of a on
its way from 1 to 4 which was arrested at this point when the sound was followed by r.
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