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Now, what can I say about “A”. Still, there are 755,000,000 monthly global searches of the letter “A”. So, my duty as a blogger, is to help you out, whatever your problem or reason for searching is.

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Basic Latin alphabet

Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd
Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh
Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn
Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt
Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz

A is the first letter and a vowel in the basic modern Latin alphabet. It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.

“A” can be traced to a pictogram of an ox head in Egyptian hieroglyph or the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet.[2]

EgyptianProto-Semitic
ox’s headPhoenician
alephGreek
AlphaEtruscan
ARoman/Cyrillic
A

In 1600 B.C., the Phoenician alphabet’s letter had a linear form that served as the base for some later forms. Its name must have corresponded closely to the Hebrew or Arabic aleph.

Blackletter A	Uncial A	Another Blackletter A
Modern Roman A	Modern Italic A	Modern Script A

When the Ancient Greeks adopted the alphabet, they had no use for the glottal stop that the letter had denoted in Phoenician and other Semitic languages, so they used the sign to represent the vowel /a/, and kept its name with a minor change (alpha). In the earliest Greek inscriptions after the Greek Dark Ages, dating to the 8th century BC, the letter rests upon its side, but in the Greek alphabet of later times it generally resembles the modern capital letter, although many local varieties can be distinguished by the shortening of one leg, or by the angle at which the cross line is set.

The Etruscans brought the Greek alphabet to their civilization in the Italian Peninsula and left the letter unchanged. The Romans later adopted theEtruscan alphabet to write the Latin language, and the resulting letter was preserved in the modern Latin alphabet used to write many languages, including English.

Typographic variants include a double-story and single-story a.

The letter has two minuscule (lower-case) forms. The form used in most current handwritingconsists of a circle and vertical stoke (”ɑ”), called Latin alpha or “script a”. Most printed material uses a form consisting of a small loop with an arc over it (”a”). Both derive from the majuscule(capital) form. In Greek handwriting, it was common to join the left leg and horizontal stroke into a single loop, as demonstrated by the Uncial version shown. Many fonts then made the right leg vertical. In some of these, the serif that began the right leg stroke developed into an arc, resulting in the printed form, while in others it was dropped, resulting in the modern handwritten form.

To be continued…………………