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Æ (lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters ''a'' and ''e'', originally a orthographic ligature, ligature representing the Latin diphthong ''ae''. It has been promoted to the full status of a letter (alphabet), letter in some languages, including Danish alphabet, Danish, Norwegian alphabet, Norwegian, Icelandic orthography, Icelandic, and Faroese language, Faroese. It was also used in Old Swedish before being changed to ä. Today, the International Phonetic Alphabet uses it to represent the Near-open front unrounded vowel, "a" sound as in the English word ''cat''. Diacritic variants include Ǣ, ǣ, Ǽ, ǽ, Æ̀, æ̀, Æ̂, æ̂, Æ̃, and æ̃.More information may be found at their entries on Wiktionary ( wikt:ǣ, ǣ, wikt:ᴂ, ᴂ, etc.), and on the appendix page there entitled wikt:Appendix:Variations of "ae", Variations of ''ae''. As a letter of the Old English Latin alphabet, it was called , "ash tree," after the Anglo-Saxon runes, Anglo-Saxon futhorc rune A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic transcription, phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation of speech sounds in written form.International Phonetic Association (IPA), ''Handbook''. The IPA is used by lexicography, lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, linguistics, linguists, speech–language pathology, speech–language pathologists, singers, actors, constructed language creators, and translators. The IPA is designed to represent those qualities of speech that are part of wiktionary:lexical, lexical (and, to a limited extent, prosodic) sounds in oral language: phone (phonetics), phones, phonemes, Intonation (linguistics), intonation, and the separation of words and syllables. To represent additional qualities of speech—such as tooth wiktionary:gnash, gnashing, lisping, and sounds made wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
