What are ä, ö, ü called?

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.

What is the ü accent called?

U-umlaut. A glyph, U with umlaut, appears in the German alphabet. It represents the umlauted form of u, which results in [yː] when long and [ʏ] when short. The letter is collated together with U, or as UE. In languages that have adopted German names or spellings, such as Swedish, the letter also occurs.

What is the ö accent called?

Umlaut (/ˈʊmlaʊt/; UUM-lout) is a name for the two dots diacritical mark (◌̈) as used to indicate in writing (as part of the letters ⟨ä⟩, ⟨ö⟩, and ⟨ü⟩) the result of the historical sound shift due to which former back vowels are now pronounced as front vowels (for example [a], [ɔ], and [ʊ] as [ɛ], [œ], and [ʏ]).

What sound does ǒ make?

Remember a long O will say its name, O, like open. A short O will say /ǒ/ like olive. Do we hear the O sound or the /ǒ/ sound in the word otter? We hear the sound /ǒ/ in otter, so it is a short vowel!

What is the double dot accent called?

A diaeresis is a mark placed over a vowel to indicate that the vowel is pronounced in a separate syllable—as in 'naïve' or 'Brontë'. Most of the English-speaking world finds the diaeresis inessential. The New Yorker may be the only publication in America that uses it regularly.

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What is ß called?

In German orthography, the letter ß, called Eszett (IPA: [ɛsˈtsɛt], S-Z) or scharfes S ( IPA: [ˌʃaʁfəs ˈʔɛs], "sharp S"), represents the /s/ phoneme in Standard German when following long vowels and diphthongs. The letter-name Eszett combines the names of the letters of ⟨s⟩ (Es) and ⟨z⟩ (Zett) in German.

How do you pronounce ö and ü in Turkish?

The Turkish Ö is pronounced somewhat like the “u” in “turn,” but you should try to round your lips a little more than you're used to. The Turkish Ü has no exact English equivalent. It's pronounced somewhat like the “ee” in “deep,” but with rounded lips.

How do you say f in German?

How is ł pronounced?

In Polish, ⟨Ł⟩ is used to distinguish the historical dark (velarized) L [ɫ] from clear L [l]. The Polish ⟨Ł⟩ now sounds the same as the English ⟨W⟩, [w] as in water (except for older speakers in some eastern Polish dialects where it still sounds velarized).

Why do Germans say double s instead of ß?

The German double s is an s sound. The meaning of ß in English is eszett. The letter has historically developed out of sz and tz sounds and makes the same voiceless s sound as a double ss which looked similar in the Antiqua typeface class. No wonder it is hard to decide when to use ß or ss.

What does づ sound like?

ず is pronounced [zu] where as づ is pronounced [dzu]. You can even hear it sometimes when Japanese people say the English word 'zoo.

What does ċ sound like?

Ċ is sometimes used in modern scholarly transcripts of Old English to represent [tʃ], to distinguish it from c pronounced as [k], which is otherwise spelled identically. Its voiced equivalent is Ġ.