Umlaut (diacritic)
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Umlaut is a name for the two dots diacritical mark as used to indicate in writing the result of the historical sound shift due to which former back vowels are now pronounced as front vowels.
U-umlauts on a German traffic sign
Finnish orthography
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Finnish orthography is based on the Latin script, and uses an alphabet derived from the Swedish alphabet, officially comprising twenty-nine letters but also including two additional letters found in s
The sign at the bus station of the Finnish municipality Mynämäki, illustrating a stylized variation of ⟨ä⟩.
Ålandsbanken 'Bank of Åland' uses a stylized letter ⟨å⟩ in its logotype.