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Historically A-diaeresis was written as an A with two dots above the letter. A-umlaut was written as an A with a small e written above (Aͤ aͤ): this minute e degenerated to two vertical bars in medieval handwriting (A̎ a̎). In most later handwritings these bars in turn nearly became dots.
Umlaut (/ ˈ ʊ m l aʊ t /) is a name for the two dots diacritical mark ( ̈) as used to indicate in writing (as part of the letters ä , ö , and ü ) the result of the historical sound shift due to which former back vowels are now pronounced as front vowels (for example , , and as , , and ).
Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
Hebrew punctuation – Punctuation conventions of the Hebrew language over time; Glossary of mathematical symbols; Japanese punctuation; Korean punctuation; Ordinal indicator – Character(s) following an ordinal number (used of the style 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or as superscript, 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th or (though not in English) 1º, 2º, 3º, 4º).
A dot above and a dot below a letter represent [a], transliterated as a or ă, Two diagonally-placed dots above a letter represent [ɑ], transliterated as ā or â or å, Two horizontally-placed dots below a letter represent [ɛ], transliterated as e or ĕ; often pronounced [ɪ] and transliterated as i in the East Syriac dialect,
and maybe some odd dots and lines above, below, or inside characters – Hebrew; פֿ; dots/lines below letters appearing only with א,י, and ו – Yiddish; no dots or lines around the letters, and more than a few words end with א (i.e., they have it at the leftmost position) – Aramaic; Ladino; 漢字文化圈 – Some East Asian Languages
Small capital G with dot above: ɢ̣: Small capital G with dot below: ʛ 𐞔 Small capital G with hook: Voiced uvular implosive; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [7] Ɣ̓ ɣ̓: Gamma with comma above: Thompson: H̀ h̀: H with grave: Greek transliteration H́ h́: H with acute
TWO DOTS OVER ONE DOT PUNCTUATION U+2E2A: Po, other Common ⸫ ONE DOT OVER TWO DOTS PUNCTUATION U+2E2B: Po, other Common ⸬ SQUARED FOUR DOT PUNCTUATION U+2E2C: Po, other Common ⸭ FIVE DOT MARK U+2E2D: Po, other Common ⸮ REVERSED QUESTION MARK U+2E2E: Po, other Common ⸰ RING POINT U+2E30: Po, other Common ⸱ WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT ...