à(àð; italics: àð or <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">àð</span>; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">àð</span>) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents an open central unrounded vowel , halfway between the pronunciation of in "cat" and "father". The Cyrillic letter àis romanized using the Latin letter A.
The Cyrillic letter ÃÂ was derived directly from the Greek letter Alpha (). In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was (azÃÂ), meaning the personal pronoun "I". In the Cyrillic numeral system, the Cyrillic letter ÃÂ has a value of 1.
Throughout history, the Cyrillic letter ÃÂ has had various shapes, but today is standardized on one that looks exactly like the Latin letter A, including the italic and lower case forms.
In most languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet â such as Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, Macedonian and Montenegrin â the Cyrillic letter àrepresents the open central unrounded vowel . In Ingush and Chechen the Cyrillic letter àrepresents both the open back unrounded vowel when stressed and the mid-central vowel when unstressed. In Turkic languages that use the Cyrillic script it represents the open back unrounded vowel , with the exception of Volga Tatar, in which it represents the open back rounded vowel , and Uzbek, in which it represents the near-open front unrounded vowel . In languages that contrast vowel length the letter can be written as a double vowel.