Â, â (a-circumflex) is a letter of the Inari Sami, Skolt Sami, Romanian, and Vietnamese alphabets. This letter also appears in French, Friulian, Frisian, Portuguese, Turkish, Walloon, and Welsh languages as a variant of the letter "a". It is included in some romanization systems for Khmer, Persian, Russian, and Ukrainian. Berber languages "â" can be used in Berber Latin alphabet to represent . Emilian-Romagnol Â is used to represent [aː] in Emilian dialects, as in Bolognese câna [kaːna] "cane". Faroese Johan Henrik Schrøter, who translated the Gospel of Matthew into Faroese in 1823, used â to denote a non-syllabic a, as in the following example: Â is not used in modern Faroese, however. French , in the French language, is used as the letter with a circumflex accent. It is a remnant of Old French, where the vowel was followed, with some exceptions, by the consonant . For example, the modern form bâton () comes from the Old French baston. Phonetically, is traditionally pronounced as , but is nowadays rarely distinguished from in many dialects such as in Parisian French. However, the traditional is still pronounced this way in Québecois French or Canadian French, which is known to resemble the phonetics of the Old French accent, and is widely spoken by French Canadians, the majority of whom live in the province of Québec. In Maghreb French, is used to transcribe the Arabic consonant , whose pronunciation is close to a non-syllabic . Friulian Â is used to represent the sound. Inari Sami Â is used to represent the sound. Italian Â occasionally used to represent the sound in words like amârono (they loved). Khmer Â is used in the UNGEGN romanization system to represent the sound in Khmer. Persian Â is used in the romanization of Persian to represent the sound in words such as Fârs. Portuguese In Portuguese, â is used to mark a stressed in words whose stressed syllable is nasal and in an unpredictable location within the word, as in "lâmina" (blade) and "âmbar" (amber). Where the location of the stressed syllable is predictable, such as in "ando" (I walk), the circumflex accent is not used. Â contrasts with á, pronounced . Romanian Â is the 3rd letter of the Romanian alphabet and represents , which is also represented in Romanian as letter î. The difference between the two is that â is used in the middle