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| | Umlaut |
 | | In Finnish, Hungarian and North Germanic languages (i.e., Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish) characters (ü, ä, ö, and å) looking similar to German umlauts are in fact considered letters in their own right, despite their representing sounds similar to the corresponding sounds in German. |
 | | As it is not a case of marking grammatical variation, i.e., of tempus or modus, nor of syllable modification, it is in fact neither a case of umlaut nor of diacritical marking. |
 | | In addition to the umlauts given above, the dotted vowels below may, or may not, be valid in different alphabets: |
| www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/u/um/umlaut.html (618 words) |
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