Umlaut characters

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The umlaut - in the English-language Unicode ' Combining diaeresis ' ; which can be written over a sound symbol for a vowel - indicates the centralized pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) . It is used to a much wider extent than the umlaut dots known in German (usually only in the plural) .

The character has the IPA number 415 and the Unicode number U + 0308. It's in the Unicode Combining Diacritics block .

Examples in other languages

Examples outside of the German umlauts .

  • [ ë ]
  • [g̈] - as a possible replacement for the Arabic Gge [⁠ ɠ⁠ ], see also Ɠ
  • [ ï ]
  • [ n̈ ]
  • [ ÿ ]

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