Germanic umlaut
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The Germanic umlaut is a type of linguistic umlaut in which a back vowel changes to the associated front vowel or a front vowel becomes closer to when the following syllable contains,, or.
⟨Ä⟩, ⟨Ö⟩, ⟨Ü⟩ on a German computer keyboard
Gothic language
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Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century copy of a 4th-century Bible translation, and is the only East Ge
Germanic umlaut
…contains , , or . It took place separately in various Germanic languages starting around 450 or 500 CE and affected all of the early languages except Gothic. An example of the resulting vowel alternation is the English plural foot ~ feet (from Proto-Germanic *fōts, pl. *fōtiz). Germanic umlaut, as covered…
The Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century Gothic manuscript
A leaf of the Codex Ambrosianus B