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Linguistics / Orthography | | English term or phrase: the (..) above O and A | | What is the name of these two dots over the letters O and A , which make them look like ö and ä? |
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| | Pisteet o:n ja a:n päällä. | Explanation:
This was a question about translation from English into Finnish, and here I answer the question.
In English, by the way, those (..) are called dots. |
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7 mins confidence: | the (..) above o and a They are known as umlauts (this term come from the German language)
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They are known as umlauts (this term come from the German language) and they are very useful when writing or reading Finnish.
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Note added at 1 hr (2011-07-18 13:15:13 GMT)
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A trema (from the Greek τρῆμα trêma; plural tremas or tremata) is a diacritic consisting of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, most commonly a vowel. (When that letter is an i, the diacritic replaces the tittle: ï.) The trema is usually used to denote one of two distinct phonological phenomena: diaeresis (pronounced /daɪˈɛrɨsɨs/ dy-err-ə-səs), in which the trema is used to show that a vowel letter is not part of a digraph or diphthong; and umlaut (pronounced /ˈʊmlaʊt/ uum-lowt), in which the trema denotes a sound shift. From WIKIPEDIA
Example sentence(s):- The "dots" above the o and a in Finnish are known as umlauts (this term come from the German language) and they are very useful when writing or reading Finnish.
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