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, called 'Latin alpha' or 'script a', is a letter of the Latin alphabet, based on one lowercase form of a, or on the Greek lowercase alpha (α). Although normally the letter a admits variation, it must be carefully distinguished from where it is used.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, represents an open back unrounded vowel, while represents an open front unrounded vowel.
ɑ is a letter in the alphabet of the Fe'fe' language. Its uppercase form is simply an enlarged version of the lowercase.

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The minuscule form was present in Unicode 1.0, as U+0251 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT A. In version 1.1.5, its name was changed to LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA.
The majuscule form was not originally encoded. Its current proposed position is U+2C6D[1]. It is also encoded in the SIL’s Private Use Area at U+F208: 