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.
When the ancient Greeks adopted the alphabet, they had no use for a letter representing a glottal stop—so they adapted the sign to represent the vowel /a/, calling the letter by the similar name alpha. The earliest known ancestor of A is aleph—the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet—where it represented a glottal stop [ʔ], as Phoenician only used consonantal letters. A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Before a consonant sound represented by a vowel letter a is usual In the Phoenician alphabet the letter stood for a species of breathing, as vowels were not represented in the Semitic alphabets.
Click Here to see full-size tableThe sound for which the letter consistently stood in Greek and Latin was the open low back vowel, sometimes known in modern English as continental a. A, letter that has stood at the head of the alphabet during the whole of the period through which it can be traced historically. The eGP Ethiopia platform avails various online services and solutions to help you participate in government procurement. Ethiopia eGP is a national electronic government procurement portal that uses an electronic system to handle transactions in the public procurement process. In both spoken and written English the choice of a1 or an 1 is determined by the initial sound of the word that follows.



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