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Ö, or ö, is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter "o" modified with an umlaut or diaeresis. Ö, or ö, is a variant of the letter O. In many languages, the letter "ö", or the "o" modified with an umlaut, is used to denote the close- or open-mid front rounded vowels or ; compare the vowel in "girl", which in these languages phonetically could be written: /görl/. In languages without such vowels, the character is known as an "o with diaeresis" and denotes a syllable break, wherein its pronunciation remains an unmodified .

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Grapheme.fam3
Oͤ oͤ
Grapheme.typedesc
ic
Grapheme.letter
Ö ö
Grapheme.language
German
Grapheme.image
Latin letter O with diaeresis.svg
Grapheme.imageclass
skin-invert-image
Grapheme.script
Latin script
Grapheme.name
O with Diaeresis
Grapheme.fam1
OE oe
Grapheme.fam2
Œ œ
Grapheme.unicode
U+00D6, U+00F6
Grapheme.direction
Left to right
Grapheme.type
alphabet
Grapheme.equivalents
oe
Grapheme.number
ASCII-8 / ALT Code(s): 246 (ö), 214 (Ö)

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11 sections
Contents
  • ''O''-umlaut
  • ''Ö'' in other languages
  • Alphabetical position
  • ''O''-diaeresis
  • In English
  • Usage in phonetic alphabets
  • Typography
  • In Unicode
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Ö, or ö, is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter "o" modified with an umlaut or diaeresis. Ö, or ö, is a variant of the letter O. In many languages, the letter "ö", or the "o" modified with an umlaut, is used to denote the close- or open-mid front rounded vowels or ; compare the vowel in "girl", which in these languages phonetically could be written: /görl/. In languages without such vowels, the character is known as an "o with diaeresis" and denotes a syllable break, wherein its pronunciation remains an unmodified .

== O-umlaut ==

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