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The Swedish alphabet (Swedish: Svenska alfabetet) is a basic element of the Latin writing system used for the Swedish language. The 29 letters of this alphabet are the modern 26-letter basic Latin alphabet ( a to z ) plus å , ä , and ö , in that order. It contains 20 consonants and 9 vowels ( a e i o u y å ä ö ).
The letter Ä arose in German and later in Swedish from originally writing the E in AE on top of the A, which with time became simplified as two dots, consistent with the Sütterlin script. In the Icelandic, Faroese, Danish and Norwegian alphabets, "Æ" is still used instead of Ä.
The letter m is not doubled at the end of the word, so the short and long stressed vowels before m are not distinguished in writing. For example: fem ('five') has a short e . Exceptions: damm 'dam', lamm 'lamb', ramm 'ram' are written with mm to distinguish them from dam 'dame', lam 'lame', ram 'frame'.
Open E with dot below: George Herzog’s Jabo transcription Ɛ̣̀ ɛ̣̀: Open E with dot below and grave: Ɛ̣́ ɛ̣́: Open E with dot below and acute: Ɛ̣̂ ɛ̣̂: Open E with dot below and circumflex: Ɛ̣̃ ɛ̣̃: Open E with dot below and tilde: Ɛ̣̈ ɛ̣̈: Open E with dot below and diaeresis: Ɛ̣̈̀ ɛ̣̈̀: Open E with dot ...
German and Swedish. The equivalent letter in German and Swedish is ä, but it is not located at the same place within the alphabet. In German, it is not a separate letter from "A" but in Swedish, it is the second-to-last letter (between å and ö). In the normalized spelling of Middle High German, æ represents a long vowel [ɛː]. The actual ...
In the Swedish and Finnish alphabets, Å is sorted after Z, as the third letter from the end, the sequence being Å, Ä, Ö. This is easiest to remember across the Nordic languages, that Danish and Norwegian follow Z first with E-mutated letters Æ and Ø and then the symbol with a one-stroke diacritic Å.
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Swedish has a large vowel inventory, with nine vowels distinguished in quality and to some degree in quantity, making 18 vowel phonemes in most dialects. Another notable feature is the pitch accent, a development which it shares with Norwegian. Swedish pronunciation of most consonants is similar to that of other Germanic languages.