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Near-open front unrounded vowel
Vowel sound represented by ⟨æ⟩ in IPA / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The near-open front unrounded vowel, or near-low front unrounded vowel,[1] is a type of vowel sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨æ⟩, a lowercase of the ⟨Æ⟩ ligature. Both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as "ash".
Near-open front unrounded vowel | |||
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IPA Number | 325 | ||
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Entity (decimal) | æ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+00E6 | ||
X-SAMPA | { | ||
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Legend: unrounded • rounded |
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The rounded counterpart of [æ], the near-open front rounded vowel (for which the IPA provides no separate symbol) has been reported to occur allophonically in Danish;[2][3] see open front rounded vowel for more information.
In practice, ⟨æ⟩ is sometimes used to represent the open front unrounded vowel; see the introduction to that page for more information.
In IPA transcriptions of Hungarian and Valencian, this vowel is typically written with ⟨ɛ⟩.