Aa (digraph)

Aa (digraph)

Aa is a digraph that occurs in some languages, e.g. in the Dutch alphabet, where it represents the [a] sound. In languages with phonemic long vowels, such as Cantonese, it may be used to write IPA|/aː/.

See also

*Å
*Ā


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