Ö, or ö, is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter "o" modified with an umlaut or diaeresis. Ö, or ö, is a variant of the letter O. 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 ; compare the vowel in "girl", which in these languages phonetically could be written: /görl/. 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 .
Key facts
- Grapheme.fam3
- Oͤ oͤ
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.letter
- Ö ö
- Grapheme.language
- German
- Grapheme.image
- Latin letter O with diaeresis.svg
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.name
- O with Diaeresis
- Grapheme.fam1
- OE oe
- Grapheme.fam2
- Œ œ
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+00D6, U+00F6
- Grapheme.direction
- Left to right
- Grapheme.type
- alphabet
- Grapheme.equivalents
- oe
- Grapheme.number
- ASCII-8 / ALT Code(s): 246 (ö), 214 (Ö)
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- ''O''-umlaut
- ''Ö'' in other languages
- Alphabetical position
- ''O''-diaeresis
- In English
- Usage in phonetic alphabets
- Typography
- In Unicode
- See also
- References
- External links
Ö, or ö, is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter "o" modified with an umlaut or diaeresis. Ö, or ö, is a variant of the letter O. 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 ; compare the vowel in "girl", which in these languages phonetically could be written: /görl/. 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 .
== O-umlaut ==