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metaphony in which a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel

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Umlaut
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U+C4,U+D6,U+DC,U+E4,U+F6,U+FC
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A road sign with three city names containing ü, Raststätte "Weiskirchen" on the A3 autobahn, south-east of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany In linguistics, umlaut (from German "sound alternation") is a sound change in which a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel.

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