Here’s how to say the letter “A” or its equivalent sound in different languages, based on pronunciation or alphabet usage. Some languages share the same Latin alphabet, while others have unique scripts. Below is a diverse list showing how “A” appears or is said across writing systems and languages:
English – A (pronounced /eɪ/)
Spanish – A (pronounced /a/)
French – A (pronounced /a/)
German – A (pronounced /aː/)
Italian – A (pronounced /a/)
Portuguese – A (pronounced /a/ or /ɐ/)
Russian – А (pronounced /a/)
Greek – Α (Alpha, pronounced /a/)
Arabic – ا (Alif, often pronounced /aː/)
Hebrew – א (Aleph, can represent a glottal stop, often used with vowels like “a”)
Hindi – अ (pronounced /ə/), आ (pronounced /aː/)
Urdu – ا (Alif, same as Arabic)
Chinese (Pinyin) – “A” is used in romanized form, pronounced /a/
Japanese – あ (Hiragana: a), ア (Katakana: a), both pronounced /a/
Korean – 아 (Hangul syllable: a)
Thai – อา (pronounced /aː/)
Vietnamese – A (pronounced /a/), also: Ả, Á, À, Ã, Ạ
Swahili – A (pronounced /a/)
Turkish – A (pronounced /a/)
Polish – A (pronounced /a/), Ą (nasal version)
Romanian – A (pronounced /a/)
Hungarian – A (pronounced /ɒ/)
Czech – A (pronounced /a/)
Slovak – A (pronounced /a/)
Bengali – অ (pronounced /ɔ/), আ (pronounced /a/)
Tamil – அ (pronounced /a/), ஆ (pronounced /aː/)
Telugu – అ (pronounced /a/), ఆ (pronounced /aː/)
Kannada – ಅ (pronounced /a/), ಆ (pronounced /aː/)
Malayalam – അ (pronounced /a/), ആ (pronounced /aː/)
Punjabi (Gurmukhi) – ਅ (pronounced /a/), ਆ (pronounced /aː/)
Gujarati – અ (pronounced /ə/), આ (pronounced /aː/)
Odia – ଅ (pronounced /ɔ/), ଆ (pronounced /aː/)
Amharic – አ (pronounced /a/)
Georgian – ა (pronounced /ɑ/)
Tibetan – ཨ (pronounced /a/)
Burmese – အ (pronounced /a/)
Mongolian (Cyrillic) – А (pronounced /a/)
Lao – ອາ (pronounced /aː/)
Khmer – អា (pronounced /aː/)
Pashto – ا (Alif, pronounced /aː/)
Persian (Farsi) – ا (Alif, pronounced /ɑː/)
Ukrainian – А (pronounced /a/)
Bulgarian – А (pronounced /a/)
Serbian (Cyrillic) – А (pronounced /a/)
Armenian – Ա (Ayb, pronounced /ɑ/)
Azerbaijani – A (pronounced /a/)
Turkmen – A (pronounced /ɑ/)
Kazakh (Cyrillic) – А (pronounced /ɑ/)
Uzbek (Latin) – A (pronounced /a/)
Yiddish – א (Alef, often vowel carrier for /a/)
Malay/Indonesian – A (pronounced /a/)
Tagalog – A (pronounced /a/)
Zulu – A (pronounced /a/)
Xhosa – A (pronounced /a/)
Maori – A (pronounced /a/)
Hawaiian – A (pronounced /a/)
Samoan – A (pronounced /a/)
Esperanto – A (pronounced /a/)
Latin – A (pronounced /a/ in Classical Latin)