Near-open_front_unrounded_vowel

Near-open front unrounded vowel

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

Occurrence

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Ahtna kuggaedi 'mosquito'
Arabic Standard كتاب [‎kiˈt̪æːb] 'book' Allophone of /a/ in the environment of plain labial and coronal consonants as well as /j/. See Arabic phonology
Azeri səs 'sound'
Bengali ? 'one'
English cat [kʰʲæt] 'cat' In New Zealand English, this is closer to [ɛ]. See English phonology
Finnish mäki 'hill' See Finnish phonology
German Bernese standard German drehen 'turn' See Bernese German phonology
Norwegian lær 'leather' See Norwegian phonology
Persian در 'door' See Persian phonology
Russian пять 'five' Allophone of /a/ between palatalized consonants. See Russian phonology
Sinhala කැමති 'to will, to like'
Slovak deväť 'nine'
Swedish päron 'pear' Allophone of /ɛ/ before /r/. See Swedish phonology
Vietnamese pha 'phase, stage' Variety: [fa]. See Vietnamese phonology
Yaghan ''mæpi 'reed'

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