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  2. Œ - Wikipedia

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    Œ is not used in Danish, just like German, but unlike German, Danish replaces œ or œu in loan-words with ø, as in økonomi "economy" from Greek via Latin œconomia or bøf "beef" from French bœuf. œ, mainly lowercase, has historically been used as a typeface alternative to æ in Danish.

  3. Open-mid front rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    Spectrogram of [œ] The open-mid front rounded vowel, or low-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 œ . The symbol œ is a lowercase ligature of the letters o and e.

  4. Ö - Wikipedia

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    In Danish and Norwegian, ö was previously used in place of ø in older texts to distinguish between open and closed ö-sounds. It is also used when confusion with other symbols could occur, on maps for instance. The Danish/Norwegian ø is, like the German/Swedish ö, a development of oe and can be compared with the French œ.

  5. Open front rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    The (near-)open front rounded vowel, or (near-)low front rounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound that has not been confirmed to be phonemic in any spoken language.[citation needed] The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɶ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is &.

  6. Mid front rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    The mid front rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.. Although there is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the "exact" mid front rounded vowel between close-mid [ø] and open-mid [œ], ø is generally used.

  7. Ø - Wikipedia

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    As with so many vowels, it has slight variations of "light" quality (in Danish, søster ("sister") is pronounced as [ø], like the "eu" in the French word bleu) and "dark" quality (in Danish, bønne ("bean") is pronounced as [œ], like the "œu" in the French word bœuf). [2] Listen to a Danish speaker reciting the Danish alphabet.

  8. Close-mid front rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

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    In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] (air). Comes from the Latin āër, Greek ἀήρ. When ae makes the diphthong / eɪ / (lay) or / aɪ / (eye). When ae is found in a foreign phrase or loan word and it is unacceptable to use the ligature in that language.