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What is this character and what language is it in? “Æ” How to you pronounce it?
What is this character and what language is it in? “Æ” How to you pronounce it?
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It’s a diphthong. It is used in infrequently in English because it has been replaced by the long e sound. It still appears as Æ in cyrillic and as ӕ in Unicode.
I thought you might like to know a little of its history.
Originally ‘ae’ was written as αι (alpha iota) in Greek words. Classical Latin also used ai before the 2nd century BC. The letters were written separately until Late Latin combined them to make æ, and then eː (a simple long vowel sound). It was simplified later still to become plain e.
Because it was also used in other languages (Faroese, Icelandic, and other Scandinavian languages, Norse, Old English, Cyrillic) it has persisted.
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It’s a way of writing “ae” in Latin, and is often pronounced like a long i. In translation, it was transcribed as the modern short e that we use in English. For example, aedificium(pronounced i-dif-ick-ee-oom) became edifice(pronounced ed-if-is).
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its latin and pronounced “eeee”
*edit* sorry, and its called an ash
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Ay as in “Ay Babay”
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its latin stand for aeee like oi u little snigger.
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