Armenian

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Etymology

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Letter ա (a) with a ring above.

Pronunciation

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Letter

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ա̊ (å)

  1. A letter used in Armenian dialectology. Represents the open back rounded vowel: [ɒ]. Transliterated as å. Present in the Gavar and Martuni regional dialects. Formerly sometimes used to represent [æ].
    Ա̊րա̊մÅråmAram (name)
    կա̊րտոլkårtolpotato

See also

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References

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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1911) Hay barbaṙagitutʻiwn. Uruagic ew dasaworutʻiwn hay barbaṙneri (barbaṙagitakan kʻartēsov) (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 8) (in Armenian), Moscow and Nor Nakhichevan: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 9
  • Ovsepjan, L. S., Gevorkjan, G. G. (2013) “Армянские диалекты (общий обзор)”, in Yuri B.Koryakov and Andrej A. Kibrik, editors, Языки мира: Реликтовые индоевропейские языки Передней и Центральной Азии[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Academia, page 324