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umlaut
Sign in to savemetaphony in which a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel
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- Umlaut forms.svg
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- Umlaut
- Unicode range
- U+C4,U+D6,U+DC,U+E4,U+F6,U+FC
- different from
- umlaut
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Encyclopedic overview
A road sign with three city names containing ü, Raststätte "Weiskirchen" on the A3 autobahn, south-east of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany In linguistics, umlaut (from German "sound alternation") is a sound change in which a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “umlaut” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.