Latin alpha or script a is a letter of the Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

, based on one lowercase form of a

A

A is the first letter and a vowel in the basic modern Latin alphabet. It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.- Origins :...

, or on the Greek

Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet is the script that has been used to write the Greek language since at least 730 BC . The alphabet in its classical and modern form consists of 24 letters ordered in sequence from alpha to omega...

 lowercase alpha

Alpha

Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. Alpha or ALPHA may also refer to:-Science:*Alpha , the highest ranking individuals in a community of social animals...

 . Although ⟨⟩ is normally just an allograph of ⟨a⟩, there are instances in which the two letters must be carefully distinguished:

• In the International Phonetic Alphabet
  International Phonetic Alphabet
  The International Phonetic Alphabet "The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic...
  
  , ⟨ɑ⟩ represents an open back unrounded vowel, while ⟨a⟩ represents an open front unrounded vowel.
• In the Fe'fe'
  Fe'fe' language
  Fe'fe or Fe'efe'e, also known as Nufi and Bafang, is a Southern Bantoid language spoken in Cameroon, around the town of Bafang.-External links:*****...
  
  , Mbembe
  Mbembe language
  Mbembe is a Cross River language of Nigeria....
  
  , Mbo and Muyang
  Muyang language
  Muyang is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon.- References :* -External links:**...
  
   languages of Cameroon, ⟨⟩ is a letter in the alphabet. It should look like the lowercase Greek alpha to better differentiate it from the letter a in script form.

Encoding

The minuscule form was present in Unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

 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 is present in Unicode

Unicode

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5.1 as U+2C6D.