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Æ, known as ash or æsh, is a Latin-script character. It is a ligature of a and e, originally representing the Latin diphthong ae. It is considered a letter in some languages, including Danish, Norwegi
Vanuatu's domestic airline operated under the name Air Melanesiæ in the 1970s.
Æ on the Katholische Hofkirche in Dresden (at the beginning of "ÆDEM")
The name Ælfgyva, on the Bayeux Tapestry
Ossetian Latin script; part of a page from a book published in 1935
Ä
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Ä is a Latin-script character. It is composed of the letter A and an umlaut or a diaeresis. It is used mainly in Northern European and Central Asian languages. In the International Phonetic Alphabet,
Æ
…considered a letter in some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. It was also used in both Old Swedish, before being replaced by ä, and Old English, where it was eventually dropped entirely in favour of a. The modern International Phonetic Alphabet uses it to represent the near-open…
Sign of Stäket, a residential area in Järfälla Municipality, Sweden
The sign at the bus station of the Finnish town Mynämäki, illustrating an artistic variation of the letter Ä
The Common Turkic Alphabet as adopted in 2024, which allows for the use of either Ä or Ə.