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In many languages, the letter "ö", or the "o" modified with an umlaut, is used to denote the close-or open-mid front rounded vowels ⓘ or ⓘ. In languages without such vowels, the character is known as an "o with diaeresis" and denotes a syllable break, wherein its pronunciation remains an unmodified .
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Standard German on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Standard German in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Due to character encoding confusion, the letters can be seen on many incorrectly coded Hungarian web pages, representing Ő/ő (letter O with double acute accent).This can happen due to said characters sharing a code point in the ISO 8859-1 and 8859-2 character sets, as well as the Windows-1252 and Windows-1250 character sets, and the web site designer forgetting to set the correct code page.
If you are sure that the character this article is about is indeed o-with-an-umlaut, then we can add \"o to the article, because I'm sure \" is an umlaut. :-) [There are other diacritics that look like ", but TeX has different ways of inputting them: e.g. the Double acute accent is input with a \H, as in Erd\H{o}s.]
In linguistics, umlaut (from German "sound alternation") is a sound change in which a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel. [1]The term umlaut was originally coined by Jacob Grimm in connection with the study of Germanic languages, as umlaut had occurred prominently in many of their linguistic histories (see Germanic umlaut). [2]
The Swedish alphabet (Swedish: Svenska alfabetet) is a basic element of the Latin writing system used for the Swedish language.The 29 letters of this alphabet are the modern 26-letter basic Latin alphabet ( a to z ) plus å , ä , and ö , in that order.
A umlaut: The ä is pronounced like the: a in apple or the ai in air. O umlaut: The ö sounds similar to the: e in her, i in bird, ea in earn, u in burn U umlaut: The German ü doesn’t have a real equal in English. However, maybe you know how to pronounce the letter u in French, it sounds just like the German ü.
The frontal phone /æ/ is the secondary umlaut of /ɑ/. It was spelled a well into the Renaissance, before e became the dominant spelling. Its pronunciation was either [æ] or [a]. /ɛː/ and /ɔː/ stem from Proto-Germanic *ai and *au. Closed /eː/ and /oː/ continue Proto-Germanic *ē 2 and *ō. /æː/ is the primary umlaut of /ɑː/.