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Example sentences for: ligature

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The common ligature in German orthography is the esszet (β, β) and there are three vowels which can take the umlaut (ä, ö, and ü ).
Related to diacritical marks are two constructs, the ligature , which is a character resulting from tying together two or more standard letters, and the digraph , which is a special case of the ligature .
German has no pure accents that I can think of (other than the occasional diaeresis in foreign proper nouns, such as Israël ), but it has one very common ligature and, of course, the umlaut which is much like a digraph—in fact, these characters are essential to proper spelling, and it is for that reason that a dropped umlaut may be seen as an offense.
The term ligature is usually reserved for printer's conventions (that is, where combinations like fi, ffi, fl , and ffl are linked together to form a single character), whereas the digraph .
Ash is a ligature of A and E; there are many other ligatures, like fi and fl, that are not considered letters in their own right.