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aa is treated like å in alphabetical sorting, not like two adjacent letters a , meaning that while a is the first letter of the alphabet, aa is the last. In Norwegian (but not in Danish), this rule does not apply to non-Scandinavian names, so a modern atlas would list the German city of Aachen under a , but list the Danish town of Aabenraa ...
Danish orthography is the system and norms used for writing the Danish language, including spelling and punctuation. Officially, the norms are set by the Danish language council through the publication of Retskrivningsordbogen. Danish currently uses a 29-letter Latin-script alphabet with an additional three letters: æ , ø and å .
Ø (or minuscule: ø) is a letter used in the Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Southern Sámi languages. It is mostly used to represent the mid front rounded vowels, such as ⓘ and ⓘ, except for Southern Sámi where it is used as an [oe] diphthong. The name of this letter is the same as the sound it represents (see usage).
Dania (Latin for Denmark) is the traditional linguistic transcription system used in Denmark to describe the Danish language. It was invented by Danish linguist Otto Jespersen and published in 1890 in the Dania, Tidsskrift for folkemål og folkeminder magazine from which the system was named.
All the three languages use the letter å . Danish and Norwegian use kk , but Swedish uses ck . Danish might also use a single 'k' finally, even for short vowels. Swedish uses the letter x in native words, but Danish and Norwegian use ks instead. In Swedish orthography, the etymological hv was abolished in 1906.
Æ in Helvetica and Bodoni Æ alone and in context. Æ (lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae.It has been promoted to the status of a letter in some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese.
The letter Å (å in lower case) represents various (although often similar) sounds in several languages. It is a separate letter in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, North Frisian, Low Saxon, Transylvanian Saxon, Walloon, Chamorro, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, Ume Sami, Pamirian languages, and Greenlandic alphabets.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Danish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Danish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.