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"Æ" is a single letter called a ligature, formed by combining the letters "A" and "E" into one character. It appears in the alphabets of certain languages like Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic, where it represents a specific vowel sound and is treated as a distinct letter rather than just a stylistic variation.
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- Æ
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- Æ æ
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- File:Latin ligature AE.svg
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- Æ in Times New Roman
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- Latin script
- Grapheme.type
- alphabet
- Grapheme.language
- Latin language
- Grapheme.phonemes
- [, , , , , , ]
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+00C6, U+00E6
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- AE ae
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- Left-to-right
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15 sectionsContents
- Languages
- English
- French
- Latin
- Other Germanic languages
- Ossetian
- South American languages
- International Phonetic Alphabet
- Unicode
- See also
- Footnotes
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
class=skin-invert-image|thumb|Æ in Helvetica and [[Bodoni]] class=skin-invert-image|thumb|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. It was also used in both Old Swedish, before being replaced by ä, and Old English, where it was eventually dropped entirely in favour of a. The modern International Phonetic Alphabet uses it to represent the near-open front unrounded vowel (the sound represented by the 'a' in English words such as cat). Diacritic variants include Ǣ/ǣ, Ǽ/ǽ, Æ̀/æ̀, Æ̂/æ̂ and Æ̃/æ̃.