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| | Encyclopedia: U diaeresis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | It also appears in the German alphabet, where it represents "U" with umlaut, and is alphabetized together with "U". |
 | | In Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan "Ü" is the letter "U" with a diaeresis, indicating that it is to be pronounced in a position where it would normally be silent, specifically between a "G" and an "E" or "I" and between a "Q" and an "E" or "I" in Portuguese and Catalan. |
 | | If the "U" is, however, to be pronounced, then a diaeresis is added; for example, lingüística (linguistics) is pronounced /lingwistika/, not /lingistika/. |
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