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  When the ancient Greeks adopted the alphabet, they had no use for a letter representing a glottal stop—so they adapted the
  sign to represent the vowel /a/, calling the letter by the similar name alpha.
  The earliest known ancestor of A is aleph—the first letter
  of the Phoenician alphabet—where it represented a glottal stop [ʔ], as Phoenician only used consonantal letters.
  A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide.
  Before a consonant sound represented by a vowel letter a is usual In the
  Phoenician alphabet the letter stood for a species of breathing, as vowels were not represented in the
  Semitic alphabets.
  The names of the vowel letter u and the semivowel letters w and y are
  pronounced with a beginning consonant sound. The
  names of the consonant letters f, h, l, m, n, r,
  s, and x are pronounced with a beginning vowel
  sound. Problems arise occasionally when the following word begins with
  a vowel letter but actually starts with a consonant sound, or vice versa.
  In algebra, the letter "A" along with other letters
  at the beginning of the alphabet is used to represent known quantities.
  In most languages that use the Latin alphabet, ⟨a⟩ denotes an open unrounded vowel, such
  as /a/, /ä/, or /ɑ/.