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"VERWALTUNGS-GEBÆUDE" lettering on the Augsburg slaughterhouse and cattle yard (around 1900)

The letter Æ , lowercase æ , is a letter in the Latin writing system . He emerged from a ligature from A and E .

From the phonetic value ago it corresponds in most languages that use it, the German umlaut Ä , the International Phonetic Alphabet is (IPA) [⁠ æ ⁠] for the unrounded almost open front vowel . From a typographical point of view, however, in these Latin alphabets the E did not move over the A and was stylized as two diacritical points , as with Ä , but next to the A.

The following languages ​​use the Æ:

  • Middle Latin: In medieval Latin, AE was joined to.
  • Middle High German : In the High German of the Middle Ages, the Æ was used to denote a long Ä. The short Ä, on the other hand, was written as Ä or Aͤ.
  • Old English : Old English has adopted the Middle Latin form. In modern English it is rarely used in words like encyclopædia (obsolete).
  • Danish : This ligature probably found its way into Danish via Old English. Æ is the 27th (third from last) letter in the alphabet if you add W to it. Æ! or æh can stand as an exclamation for hesitation (or disgust), compare German uh and bah! . In the dialects of Thy and South Jutland is Æ [ɛ] the word for I (in other dialects of Jutland A , the standard Danish jeg [jai]). In the West and South Jutian dialects, æ [æ] is the definite article that is placed after the noun to be determined in the more eastern dialects.
  • Faroese : In the Faroese alphabet, Æ is the 27th and penultimate letter. If the æ is spoken long, it is the diphthong [ɛa:], which in Faroese linguistics (like the á ) is counted among the monophthongs . It is pronounced [a] for short. The æ in this language has the same properties as the letter a , so it is identical . Both are represented by the phoneme / æ /.
  • French : In the French alphabet, the Æ (when spelling “e-dans-l'a”, also called “e in a”) corresponds roughly to É and is mostly used in loan words from Latin. Examples include: cæcum (appendix), nævus (nevus), ex æquo (equal), curriculum vitæ (curriculum vitae), et cætera (and so on). The letter can also be found in proper names that were transcribed from ancient Greek, such as Ægosthènes. It also comes in the song Lætitia of Serge Gainsbourg ago, in which he spells out the name of the beloved more than once ( "elaeudanla téïtéïa»)
  • Icelandic : In the Icelandic alphabet , Æ is the 31st and penultimate letter. In contrast to the other North Germanic languages, it signals the diphthong [ai].
  • Norwegian : The Æ represents a sound that is closer to the German A than Ä. In northern and central Norwegian dialects, Æ (as in some Danish dialects) also stands for the word Any (I).
  • Ossetian : When the Ossetian language used the Latin script between 1923 and 1938, the Æ corresponded to the German Ä sound. After the changeover to the current Ossetian- Cyrillic alphabet, there is still an identical-looking letter, but it has a different Unicode coding than the Latin lat.

Representation on computer systems

Key information based on a German QWERTZ keyboard
System 1 Capitals (Æ) Minuscule (æ)
Windows CP850 ( TUI ) Alt+ 1462 Alt+ 1452
CP1252  ( GUI ) Alt+ 01982 Alt+ 02302
Apple Macintosh alt/⌥+ ⇧Shift+Ä alt/⌥+Ä
Linux (with newer versions of X11 ) Alt Gr+ ⇧Shift+ Aor

Compose, ⇧Shift+AE

Alt Gr+ Aor

Compose, A,E

Neo Mod3+ ↹, ⇧Shift+ AE3 Mod3+ ↹, A, E3
EurKEY AltGr+ ⇧Shift+q AltGr+q
OpenOffice.org variants - -
Microsoft Word Keyboard shortcut Strg+ ⇧Shift+ &, ⇧Shift+A Strg+ ⇧Shift+ &,A
Unicode input C, 6, Alt+C E, 6, Alt+C
Vim Digraph 4 Strg+ K, ⇧Shift+AE Strg+ K, A,E
Unicode input Strg+ V, U, 0, 0, C,6 Strg+ V, U, 0, 0, E,6
TeX / LaTeX Text mode \ AE \ ae
Mathem. mode - -
HTML entity & AElig; & aelig;
XML / XHTML decimal & # 198; & # 230;
hexadecimal & # x00C6; & # x00E6;
ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) and Unicode U + 00C6 U + 00E6
2Enter numbers via the numeric keypad . Hold the Alt key down permanently.
3The Mod3 keys correspond to the CAPS LOCK and hash keys. Compose support ( Mod3+ Tabor ♫) has to be installed on some systems .
4thDigraph support based on RFC 1354 in insert mode according to documentation .

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