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Æ in Helvetica and Bodoni. Æ alone and in context. Æ ( lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. It has been promoted to the status of a letter in some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese.
The letter æ was used in earlier Swedish script systems, when there was in general more similarity between the Scandinavian languages. The ligature æ , used in Latin as a variant of ae , is used in some Swedish surnames. It is then considered equivalent with ae and collated accordingly.
In the romanization of Nanjing Mandarin, Ä stands for [ɛ] . The sign at the bus station of the Finnish town Mynämäki, illustrating an artistic variation of the letter Ä. In the Nordic countries, the vowel sound [æ] was originally written as " Æ " when Christianisation caused the former Vikings to start using the Latin alphabet around A.D ...
Sagittal section of a vocal tract pronouncing the IPA sound æ . Note that a wavy glottis in this diagram indicates a voiced sound. The near-open front unrounded vowel, or near-low front unrounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is æ , a lowercase of the Æ ligature.
In the sociolinguistics of English, /æ/ raising is a process that occurs in many accents of American English, and to some degree in Canadian English, by which / æ / ⓘ, the "short a" vowel found in such words as ash, bath, man, lamp, pal, rag, sack, trap, etc., is tensed: pronounced as more raised, and lengthened and/or diphthongized in ...
The Old English Latin alphabet generally consisted of about 24 letters, and was used for writing Old English from the 8th to the 12th centuries. Of these letters, most were directly adopted from the Latin alphabet, two were modified Latin letters ( Æ, Ð ), and two developed from the runic alphabet ( Ƿ, Þ ). The letters Q and Z were ...
Danish and Norwegian alphabet. For broader coverage of this topic, see Danish orthography and Norwegian orthography. The Danish and Norwegian alphabet is the set of symbols, forming a variant of the Latin alphabet, used for writing the Danish and Norwegian languages. It has consisted of the following 29 letters since 1917 (Norwegian) and 1948 ...
The letter eth (Ð ð) was later devised as a modification of dee (D d), and finally yogh (Ȝ ȝ) was created by Norman scribes from the insular g in Old English and Irish, and used alongside their Carolingian g. The a-e ligature ash (Æ æ) was adopted as a letter in its own right, named after a futhorc rune æsc.