Usage
In most languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet – such as Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian – the Cyrillic letter A represents the open front unrounded vowel /a/.
In Ingush and Chechen the Cyrillic letter A represents both the open back unrounded vowel /ɑ/ and the mid-central vowel /ə/.
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