The letter named "A" is the thirty-ninth letter of the Modern Šnagan alphabet. In the Old Šnagan alphabet, it is sixteenth letter.
It represents an open front unrounded vowel sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is [a]. In the English language, it is the sound denoted by the letter ⟨a⟩ in "hat". In the Mandarin language, it is the sound denoted by the letter <ā> in ān.
The letter is rendered in Latin script as "A", both in the Mål and Bradford romanization systems.