Á

Á, á (a-acute) is a letter of the Chinese (Pinyin), Blackfoot, Czech, Dobrujan Tatar, Dutch, Faroese, Filipino, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Karakalpak, Lakota, Navajo, Occitan, Portuguese, Sámi, Slovak, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh and Western Apache languages as a variant of the letter a.

Á is the 2nd letter of the Dobrujan Tatar alphabet, represents the near-low unrounded ATR or soft vowel /æ/ as in "sáát" [s̶ææt̶] 'hour', 'clock'.

In Irish, á is called a fada ("long a"), pronounced [aː] and appears in words such as slán ("goodbye").

Fada is only used on vowel letters i.e. á, é, í, ó, ú.

In the 2018 amends of Kazakh alphabet list, Á is defined as the second letter and represents /æ/.

The acute accent on a is often found in verbal nouns and borrowed words, for example, casáu [kaˈsaɨ̯, kaˈsai̯] "to hate", caniatáu [kanjaˈtaɨ̯, kanjaˈtai̯] "to allow", carafán [karaˈvan] "caravan".