Latin alpha (majuscule: Ɑ, minuscule: ɑ), script a, or single-story a is a letter of the **Latin alpha**bet based on one lowercase form of a, or on the Greek lowercase alpha (α).

Usage

Although is normally just an allograph of ⟨a⟩, there are instances in which the two letters are distinguished: In Cameroon languages, ⟨Ɑ ɑ⟩ must look like the classical lowercase Greek alpha to better differentiate it from the letter a in script form. is used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. is used in the Teuthonista phonetic transcription system. is used in Americanist phonetic notation.

Typography

Encoding and forms

In Unicode, "Latin alpha" and "Latin script a" are considered to be the same character, which has an uppercase and a lowercase form and is referred to as "Latin letter alpha".