Æ

"Æ", tiny "æ", (appellé " E in A "in French), is one and one used in, it, it, and it.

It was also used in old English and in medieval Latin. still uses æ to write certain names, such as Encyclopædia (), but since the arrival of the typewriters and computers, its use tends to disappear. This letter was in the beginning one of the two letters A and E. One finds this character in the Latin alphabet, in particular in the Lætitia first name, where this graphème is immortalisé by the song of Elaeudanla Téïtéïa (L, E in A, T, I, T, I, a).

In Icelandic, the letter Æ form a marked diphthong [ have ]. It is the same in, féroen for the letter called Æ long pronounced [?a ], and the short version Æ simply marked [ has ]. In Danish and Norwegian, Æ represent a simple vowel, respectively marked [? ] and [ æ ]. The same phoneme is represented inSwedish alphabet and German by the letter Ä.

As old English, the binding æ was used to express a sound enters A and E (i.e. [æ]), very near to "A" French (or in English cat). In this context, the name of the letter, Æsc (Ash in modern English, who means ash) drawn from rune corresponding? is resulting from Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, him even derived from the rune Have of Furhark.

In traditional Latin, the combination describes the diphthong [ ae? ]. It was used at the same time in the Latin words (written with "AI" before II^E century before JC) and in the words borrowed from the Greek, in whom one did find diphthong "AI" ("?? "). In traditional Latin as in modern Latin, one should write both separately letter, but the binding was used from the Middle Ages to the last Latin writings because was monophtonguée in one long vowel, [??], as of the first Latin literary texts. The old diphthong Æ was often noted by means of one E caudata as of the texts in : ?. This diacritic disappeared thereafter and the vowel was noted by simple E.

Symbol IPA [ æ ] is also used in International Phonetic Alphabet to describe the sound of the vowel as former English, pronounced as in the English word cat (enters 2nd and has).