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Primary glyph rendered below. Extend with historical alternates and transliteration metadata.
a
A
c. 100 BCE - 400 CE
A
Belongs to Classical Latin Alphabet.
Sound correspondences
Derived from the `correspondences` table. Each entry pairs the letter with a phoneme in a specific historical context.
A
short
a
Default short /a/ vowel (e.g., 'amat').
aː
Long /aː/ (inscriptions sometimes mark apex, e.g., AFRICA with an apex on A).
ae̯
When part of digraph "ae" (e.g., "Caesar").
au̯
When part of digraph "au" (e.g., "aurum").
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