How to pronounce ae in latin

All vowels are made through the mouth and are voiced so you vibrate your vocal chords to make the sound. It is similar to the /ɑ:/ sound, but it is shorter. /æ/ not /ɑ:/ To produce the sound put your tongue low and at the front of your mouth and stretch out your lips, then make a short voiced sound with you mouth open.

Bottom line: In American English, the most correct and generally accepted pronunciation of Latin words ending in –ae appears to be the long ē sound, as in “tea” or “Caesar salad.”

Æ and æ (ash): This letter, called “ash,” may be familiar to you from old-fashioned spellings of words like “Encyclopædia.” The digraph æ in Old English is pronounced the same way as the “a” in the words “bat” or “cat.”

“Ae” and “oe” can be pronounced like “e.” General rules of accent: If a name has two syllables, accent the first.

It has been promoted to the full status of a letter in some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. ) which it transliterated; its traditional name in English is still ash (/æʃ/).