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Among English-speaking typographers the symbol may be called a "slashed O" [1] or "o with stroke". Although these names suggest it is a ligature or a diacritical variant of the letter o , it is considered a separate letter in Danish and Norwegian, and it is alphabetized after z — thus x , y , z , æ , ø , and å .
Spectrogram of [ø]. The close-mid front rounded vowel, or high-mid front rounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is ø , a lowercase letter o with a diagonal stroke through it, borrowed from Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese, which sometimes use the letter to represent the sound.
The Norwegian vowels æ , ø and å never take diacritics. Bokmål is mostly spelled without diacritic signs. The only exception is one word of Norwegian origin, namely fôr, to be distinguished from for (see below) as well as any subsequent compound words, eg kåpefôr (coat lining) and dyrefôr (animal feed). There are also a small number of ...
Unless manually corrected, sorting algorithms of programs localized for Danish or Norwegian place e.g., Aaron after Zorro. In Danish the correct sorting of aa depends on pronunciation: If the sound is pronounced as one sound it is sorted as Å regardless of the sound is 'a' or 'å'; thus, for example, the German city Aachen is listed under Å ...
Norwegian orthography is the method of writing the Norwegian language, of which there are two written standards: Bokmål and Nynorsk.While Bokmål has for the most part derived its forms from the written Danish language and Danish-Norwegian speech, Nynorsk gets its word forms from Aasen's reconstructed "base dialect", which is intended to represent the distinctive dialectal forms.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Norwegian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Norwegian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
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Ê, ê (e-circumflex) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, found in Afrikaans, French, Friulian, Kurdish, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Portuguese, Vietnamese, and Welsh. It is used to transliterate Chinese, Persian, and Ukrainian and presents an open mid-back unrounded pharynhotic vowel.