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It was also used in Old English and in mediæval and early modern Latin. Modern English still contains several words that use æ, such as Encyclopædia, but it is falling into disuse. The origin of the letter is a ligature for A E.

In Icelandic, the letter Æ signifies a diphthong ( IPA [ai]). The same goes in Faroese for the so-called long Æ ( IPA [ɛa]), whereas the short Æ is a simple [a]. In Danish and Norwegian, Æ represents a simple vowel, namely IPA [ɛ]. The same phoneme is represented in Swedish by the letter " Äor a is a letter, representing a vowel, in the Finnish, Swedish and Estonian alphabets. It also appears in the German alphabet, where it represents " A" with umlaut, and is alphabetized as "A". Other alphabets are Azerbaijani, Welsh, Frisian, Luxenbourgia", and in GermanThe German alphabet consists of the same 26 letters as the modern Latin alphabet: : a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z : A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z : The letter 'y by "A- UmlautThe term umlaut is used for two closely related notions: a special kind of vowel modification and a particular diacritic mark. Vowel modification In linguistics, the process of umlaut (from German um "around", "transformation" + laut "sound") is a modific".

In Old English, the æ ligature was used to denote a sound intermediate between those of " A" and " E" (IPA [æ]), very much like the short "A" of cat in many dialects of modern English. In this context, the name of the letter is Æsc ( AshAsh is: The solid residue left after something has burned, usually wood and plant material (such as tobacco). It consists mainly of carbonates and bicarbonates of metals in the original organic material the metals that primarily compose the ash of the ana in modern EnglishModern English is the term used for the contemporary use of the English language. In terms of historical linguistics, it covers the English language after the Middle English period; that is, roughly, after the Great Vowel Shift, which was largely conclude, meaning the tree), after the name of the corresponding letter in the Futharc.

In Classical Latin, the combination denotes a diphthong (IPA [ae̯]) that had a value similar to the long "I" in most dialects of modern English. It was used both in native words (spelled with "AI" before the 2nd century BC) and in borrowings from Greek words having the diphthong "AI" ("ΑΙ"). Both classical and modern practice is to write the letters separately, but the ligature was used in medieval and early modern writings, in part because "Æ" was reduced to a simple long vowel (IPA [e:]) in late Latin.

The symbol [æ] is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to denote the sound of the Old English letter, an unrounded, semi-open front vowel, as in the modern English word cat. In this context, it is always lowercase.

For computers, when using the Latin-1 or Unicode sets, the codes for 'Æ' and 'æ' are respectively 198 and 230 (holding down the ALT key whilst typing in 0198 on the number pad will produce the character on Windows systems and holding down the option or alt key (⌥) whilst typing an apostrophe (') on a United States Macintosh keyboard), or C6 and E6 in hexadecimal. In HTML, the HTML character entity references Æ and æ have been assigned to Æ and æ, respectively.

The progressive metal band Tool used an Æ for the title of their third album, Ænima, and the song Ænema off of that album. This is similar to the usage of the heavy metal umlaut, but is meant as a combination of anima and enema.