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  2. Umlaut (diacritic) - Wikipedia

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    The International Phonetic Alphabet uses a double dot below a letter, a notation it calls "subscript umlaut" to indicate breathy (murmured) voice, (for example Hindi [kʊm̤ar] "potter". [ 8 ] [ c ] : 25 ) The ALA-LC romanization system provides for its use and is one of the main schemes to romanize Persian (for example, rendering ض as z̤ ).

  3. German alphabet - Wikipedia

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    There are three ways to deal with the umlauts in alphabetic sorting. Treat them like their base characters, as if the umlaut was not present (DIN 5007-1, section 6.1.1.4.1). This is the preferred method for dictionaries, where umlauted words ("Füße", feet) should appear near their origin words ("Fuß", foot).

  4. Germanic umlaut - Wikipedia

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    The vowels of proto-Germanic and their general direction of change when i-mutated in the later Germanic dialects. Germanic umlaut is a specific historical example of this process that took place in the unattested earliest stages of Old English and Old Norse and apparently later in Old High German, and some other old Germanic languages.

  5. Ü - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Two dots (diacritic) - Wikipedia

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    In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a double dot above a letter is used for a centralized vowel, a situation more similar to umlaut than to diaeresis. In other languages it is used for vowel length, nasalization, tone, and various other uses where diaeresis or umlaut was available typographically.

  7. German orthography - Wikipedia

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    There are three ways to deal with the umlauts in alphabetic sorting. Treat them like their base characters, as if the umlaut were not present (DIN 5007-1, section 6.1.1.4.1). This is the preferred method for dictionaries, where umlauted words (Füße "feet") should appear near their origin words (Fuß "foot").

  8. Umlaut - Wikipedia

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    Umlaut (diacritic), a diacritical mark that consists of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter Metal umlaut, used in names of heavy metal or hard rock bands for visual rather than phonetic effect; Umlaut (linguistics), a sound change where a vowel was modified to conform more closely to the vowel in the next syllable; in particular:

  9. Diacritic - Wikipedia

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    The Slovak alphabet uses the acute (á é í ó ú ý ĺ ŕ), caron (č ď ľ ň š ť ž dž), umlaut (ä) and circumflex accent (ô). All of those are considered separate letters and are placed directly after the original counterpart in the alphabet .