Near-open front unrounded vowel

Vowels

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Close	i • y ɨ • ʉ ɯ • u ɪ • ʏ • ʊ e • ø ɘ • ɵ ɤ • o ə ɛ • œ ɜ • ɞ ʌ • ɔ æ ɐ a • ɶ ɑ • ɒ
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open

Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.

IPA – number	325
IPA – text	æ
IPA – image
Entity	æ
X-SAMPA	{
Kirshenbaum	&
Sound sample (help·info)

The near-open front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is æ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is {. The IPA symbol is the lowercase ae ligature, and both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as "ash".

Features

• Its vowel height is near-open, which means the tongue is positioned similarly to an open vowel, but slightly more constricted.
• Its vowel backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
• Its vowel roundedness is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded.

Occurs in

• English: (RP, GA and AuE) fat [fæt]
• Azeri: səs [sæs], "sound"
• Finnish: mäki [ˈmæki], "hill"
• German: Käse [ˈkæzə], "cheese" (some dialects)
• Norwegian: lærer [ˈlæɾeɾ], "teacher"
• Persian: [dær], "door"
• Swedish: kärlek [ˈɕæːɹleːk] "love"
• Russian: пять [pʲætʲ], "five"
• Vietnamese: tay [tǣj], "arm/hand"

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