It has been promoted to the status of a letter in some languages, including danish, norwegian, icelandic, and faroese. It is similar to the /ɑ:/ sound, but it is shorter /æ/ not /ɑ:/ to produce the sound put your tongue low and at the front of your mouth and stretch out your lips, then make a short voiced. The letter æ was used in old english to represent the vowel that's pronounced in modern english ash, fan, happy, and last Mostly we now spell that vowel with the letter a, because of the great vowel shift. These symbols are characters formed from the letters a and e
Æ) sounds like the ‘a’ in “bad” but a bit longer You’ll hear it in everyday words like træ (tree), læse (to read), and æble (apple). Æ (lower case, upper case æ) obsolete form of ä (used, alongside other graphemes, until ca 1700, since then very rarely). To outsiders, the letters æ, ø, and å might look like decorative symbols or curious marks sprinkled into norwegian text Yet, for norwegians, these three
Both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as ash
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