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In phonology, hiatus (/ h aɪ ˈ eɪ t ə s / hy-AY-təs) or diaeresis (/ d aɪ ˈ ɛr ə s ɪ s,-ˈ ɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-siss, - EER-; [1] also spelled dieresis or diæresis) describes the occurrence of two separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables with no intervening consonant.
In English language texts it is perhaps most familiar in the loan words naïve, Noël and Chloë, and is also used officially in the name of the island Teän and of Coös County. Languages such as Dutch , Afrikaans , Catalan , French , Galician , Greek , and Spanish make regular use of the diaeresis.
In some cases, the diacritic is not borrowed from any foreign language but is purely of English origin. The second of two vowels in a hiatus can be marked with a diaeresis (or "tréma") – as in words such as coöperative , daïs and reëlect – but its use has become less common, sometimes being replaced by the use of a hyphen. [ 9 ]
Ï, lowercase ï, is a symbol used in various languages written with the Latin alphabet; it can be read as the letter I with diaeresis, I-umlaut or I-trema.. Initially in French and also in Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, Galician, Southern Sami, Welsh, and occasionally English, ï is used when i follows another vowel and indicates hiatus in the pronunciation of such a word.
Diaeresis (linguistics), or hiatus, the separation of adjacent vowels into syllables, not separated by a consonant or pause and not merged into a diphthong; Diaeresis (diacritic), a diacritic consisting of two side-by-side dots that marks disyllabicity; Diaeresis (computing), the name used by the Unicode Consortium for the "two-dots above ...
In poetic meter, diaeresis (/ d aɪ ˈ ɛr ə s ɪ s,-ˈ ɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-siss, - EER-; also spelled diæresis or dieresis) has two meanings: the separate pronunciation of the two vowels in a diphthong for the sake of meter, and a division between feet that corresponds to the division between words.
The most familiar to English-language speakers are the diaeresis and the umlaut, though there are numerous others. For example, in Albanian , ë represents a schwa . Such diacritics are also sometimes used for stylistic reasons (as in the family name Brontë or the band name Mötley Crüe ).
Ü (lowercase ü) is a Latin script character composed of the letter U and the diaeresis diacritical mark. In some alphabets such as those of a number of Romance languages or Guarani it denotes an instance of regular U to be construed in isolation from adjacent characters with which it would usually form a larger unit; other alphabets like the Azerbaijani, Estonian, German, Hungarian and ...