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Umlaut (literally "changed sound") is the German name of the sound shift phenomenon also known as i-mutation.In German, this term is also used for the corresponding letters ä, ö, and ü (and the diphthong äu) and the sounds that these letters represent.
While Germanic umlaut has had important consequences for all modern Germanic languages, its effects are particularly apparent in German, because vowels resulting from umlaut are generally spelled with a specific set of letters: ä , ö , and ü , usually pronounced /ɛ/ (formerly /æ/), /ø/, and /y/.
German uses letter-diacritic combinations (Ä/ä, Ö/ö, Ü/ü) using the umlaut and one ligature (ẞ/ß (called eszett (sz) or scharfes S, sharp s)), but they do not constitute distinct letters in the alphabet.
The letter Ö, standing for Österreich, i.e. Austria, on a boundary stone at the German-Austrian border. The letter o with umlaut (ö [1]) appears in the German alphabet. It represents the umlauted form of o, resulting in or . The letter is often collated together with o in the German alphabet, but there are exceptions which collate it like oe ...
German has four special letters; three are vowels accented with an umlaut sign ( ä, ö, ü ) and one is derived from a ligature of ſ and z ( ß ; called Eszett "ess-zed/zee" or scharfes S "sharp s"). They have their own names separate from the letters they are based on.
Ä in German Sign Language. A similar glyph, A with umlaut, appears in the German alphabet.It represents the umlauted form of a (when short), resulting in (or for many speakers) in the case of the long and in the case of the short .
The phonology of Standard German is the standard pronunciation or accent ... [What about the pronunciation of the letter Ä itself and the ... In umlaut forms, the ...
German uses the two-dots diacritic (German: umlaut): letters ä , ö , ü , used to indicate the fronting of back vowels (see umlaut (linguistics)). Dutch uses acute, circumflex, grave and two-dots diacritics with most vowels and cedilla with c, as in French.