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Also known as Aa, Å, å
The letter Å (å in lower case) represents various (although often similar) sounds in several languages. It is a separate letter in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, North Frisian, Low Saxon, Transylvanian Saxon, Walloon, Rotuman, Chamorro, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, Ume Sami, Pamirian languages, and Greenlandic alphabets. Additionally, it is part of the alphabets used for some Alemannic and Austro-Bavarian dialects of German.
Å is a letter used in the alphabets of numerous languages, primarily across Scandinavian and northern European regions, where it represents particular vowel sounds that differ from standard Latin letters. It is recognized as a distinct letter in languages ranging from Danish and Swedish to Greenlandic and various Sami languages, making it essential for accurate spelling and pronunciation in these linguistic communities.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Å is referenced by 407 other articles, and connects out to Ă, Â and ring.
Vinony files it under Danish language, Istro-Romanian language and Latin letters with diacritics.
Its subject is documented across 55 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Grapheme.image
- Latin letter A with ring above.svg
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.letter
- Å å
- Grapheme.name
- A with Overring
- Grapheme.fam1
- AO ao, AA aa
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.language
- Swedish
- Grapheme.variations
- Ǻ ǻ
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+00C5, U+00E5, U+212B
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Finnish alphabet
- Has part
- A
- Based on
- A
- Image
- Latin alphabet Åå.svg
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- Commons category
- Å
- Unicode character
- Å
- Commons gallery
- Å
- different from
- A
- inception
- 1917-01-01
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