à(lowercase: ÃÂ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from E with the addition of a diagonal stroke through the letter. It is used in the 1989 orthography of the Mazahua language, where it represents , as well in a few other languages of Mexico such as Chinantec of Ojitlán or Chichimeca Jonaz language.
Both the capital and lowercase variants of E with stroke were added to Unicode in 2004. In the SecretarÃÂa de Educación Pública de México's alphabet for the Indigenous language Mazahua, the version of a letter with a slash through it is used to mark a nasalized vowel.
ÃÂ is also used in some alphabets for the Tlahuica language (also known as PjyÃÂkakjo or Ocuiltec). In these alphabets, the slash indicates a centralized version of a vowel, so ÃÂ represents a mid central vowel .
Jacques Pelletier du Mans used ÃÂ in his proposal for the reform of French orthography (1550), but this failed to gain traction.