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Example sentences for: umlauts

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However, dropping umlauts is less forgivable than dropping accents, because accents describe pronunciation, and anyone who is familiar with the word will know how it is supposed to be pronounced, regardless of the accent.
The Scandinavian languages also have characters similar to the German umlauts: besides the ä and ö (Swedish), Norwegian and Danish have œ (a + e as in English), Norwegian and Danish also have θ (o + e) and all three use a (a + a).
Diacritical marks can be broken down into two types: accents, which affect, roughly speaking, pronunciation only; and umlauts, which affect spelling as well as pronunciation.
In Uighur, it’s spelled with umlauts: Ürümqi.
Umlauts are not simply accents, however: they are fundamental to the spelling of a word and should always be transcribed as ae/oe/ue (or aa in the case of the Scandinavian a) in character sets that do not provide umlauts.