Two dots (diacritic) in the context of "Diaeresis (diacritic)"

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⭐ Core Definition: Two dots (diacritic)

Diacritical marks of two dots ¨, placed side-by-side over or under a letter, are used in several languages for several different purposes. The most familiar to English-language speakers are the diaeresis and the umlaut, though there are numerous others. For example, in Albanian, ë represents a schwa. Such diacritics are also sometimes used for stylistic reasons (as in the family name Brontë or the band name Mötley Crüe).

In modern computer systems using Unicode, the two-dot diacritics are almost always encoded identically, having the same code point. For example, U+00F6 ö LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS represents both o-umlaut and o-diaeresis. Their appearance in print or on screen may vary between typefaces but rarely within the same typeface.

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👉 Two dots (diacritic) in the context of Diaeresis (diacritic)

Diaeresis (/daɪˈɛrəsɪs, -ˈɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-siss, -⁠EER-) is a diacritical mark consisting of two dots (◌̈) that indicates that two adjacent vowel letters are separate syllables – a vowel hiatus (also called a diaeresis) – rather than a digraph or diphthong.

It consists of a two dots diacritic placed over a letter, generally a vowel.

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Two dots (diacritic) in the context of Umlaut (diacritic)

Umlaut (/ˈʊmlaʊt/; UUM-lout) is a name for the two dots diacritical mark (◌̈) as used to indicate in writing (as part of the letters ⟨ä⟩, ⟨ö⟩, and ⟨ü⟩) the result of the historical sound shift due to which former back vowels are now pronounced as front vowels (for example [a], [ɔ], and [ʊ] as [ɛ], [œ], and [ʏ]). (The term Germanic umlaut is also used for the underlying historical sound shift process.)

In its contemporary printed form, the mark consists of two dots placed over the letter to represent the changed vowel sound. In some Romance and other languages, the diaeresis diacritic has the same appearance but a different function.

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LINKED FROM (PARENTS)
← Diaeresis (diacritic) ← Umlaut (diacritic)
LINKS TO (CHILDREN)
Diacritical mark → English language → Diaeresis (diacritic) → Umlaut (diacritic) → Albanian language → Schwa → Brontë family → Mötley Crüe → Unicode → Character encoding → Code point → Typeface →