Key facts
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Type
- Alphabetic
- Sound values
- [ ɐ ], [ æ ], [ ʌ ]
- Development
- АЕ ае Ӕ ӕ
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Cyrillic script
- Has part
- Е/е
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- Unicode character
- ӕ
- Commons category
- Cyrillic Ae
- different from
- Æ
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Encyclopedic overview
Ae (Ӕ ӕ; italics: Ӕ ӕ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used exclusively in the Ossetian language to represent a near-open central vowel /ɐ/ in the Iron dialect and an open-mid back unrounded vowel /ʌ/ in the Digor dialect; both vowels are similar to the pronunciation of ⟨u⟩ in English "up". Its ISO 9 transliteration is ⟨æ⟩ but some transliteration schemes may render it as ⟨ä⟩. It is homoglyphic with the Latin script letter Æ (Æ æ Æ æ).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “KR” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.