Talk:Ā

Vfd
On 9 Mar 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. There was no consensus. See Votes for deletion/A-macron for a record of the discussion. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 01:59, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)

pinyin
I am removing the bit about first tone A. Technically it's correct, but really, a line over anything indicates that it's a first tone. 69.86.189.171 (talk) 17:57, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Now it says that it's a long A in pinyin, which is just plain wrong. The macron indicates a high level tone and says nothing about the length.213.112.55.89 (talk) 06:38, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Contradiction?
The second paragraph says Ā is a separate letter “after A and before B” in Latvian. But the third paragraph says Ā is a “long A” in languages including Latvian. This is unclear and seems contradictory. 03:46, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
 * It can represent a long A, yet be sorted as an unrelated letter. There is no contradiction. ï¿½ (talk) 12:49, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
 * On the other hand, there is another contradiction: we have “comes after A and before B in alphabet” and then “In alphabetical order it is ordered equal with A”. ï¿½ (talk) 12:52, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Devanagari
In the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, Ā represents the open back unrounded vowel, आ, not to be confused with the similar Devanagari character for the mid central vowel, अ. This is put confusingly. आ and अ contrast in vowel length and not quality although the quality might differ phonetically in many indic languages. 134.76.61.232 (talk) 18:23, 4 July 2019 (UTC)