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Æ
Ligature of the Latin letters A and E
This article is about the Latin-script ligature. For the Cyrillic letter, see Ӕ (Cyrillic). For the sound, see Near-open front unrounded vowel.
Æ/ sound wordsFor other uses, see AE (disambiguation).
"Ash (character)" redirects here. Not to be confused with Ash (name).
"Æsh" redirects here. Not to be confused with Aesh (redirects to a different target).
Æ (lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latindiphthongae.
It has been promoted to the status of a letter in some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. It was also used in Old Swedish before being changed to ä.
What is æ called
It was also used in Ossetian before switched back to its Cyrillic counterpart. The modern International Phonetic Alphabet uses it to represent the near-open front unrounded vowel (the sound represented by the 'a' in English words like cat).
Diacritic variants include Ǣ/ǣ, Ǽ/ǽ, Æ̀/æ̀, Æ̂/æ̂ and Æ̃/æ̃.[a]
As a letter of the Old English Latin alphabet, it was called æsc, "ash tree