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Encyclopedia > Swedish alphabet

The Swedish alphabet consists of the following 28 letters: An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters—basic written symbols—each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ...

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, X, Y, Z, Å, Ä, Ö

The main feature separating it from the Latin alphabet are the three additional vowels, "Å", "Ä" and "Ö". The letter A is the first (1st) letter in the Latin alphabet. ... The letter B is the second letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... C is the third letter of the Roman alphabet. ... The letter D is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... The letter E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... The letter F is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... G is the seventh letter in the Roman alphabet. ... H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... I is the 9th letter in the Latin alphabet. ... The letter J is the tenth of the Latin alphabet; it was the last to be added to that alphabet. ... The eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, K comes from the Greek Κ or κ (Kappa) developed from the Semitic Kap, symbol for an open hand. ... L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... M is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... N is the fourteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... O is the fifteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... P is the 16th letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Q is the 17th letter of the Latin alphabet. ... R is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... S is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. ... T is the twentieth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... U is the twenty-first letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. ... X is the twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Y is the twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. ... Å, or å, is a letter, representing a vowel, in the Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Walloon and Chamorro alphabets. ... Ä - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Ö, or ö, is a glyph which represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, the letter O with umlaut, or a letter O with diaeresis. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ...


The characters "Å", "Ä" and "Ö" - the latter looking similar to German umlauts ('ä', 'ö') - are in fact considered letters of their own merits, despite them representing sounds similar to the corresponding sounds in German. As it's not a case of marking grammatical variation, i.e. of tempus or modus, or of syllable modification (diaeresis), it is in fact not a case of diacritical marking, and it ought to be improper to call these characters umlauts. However, no better name is known in English. Ä ä Ö ö Ü ü The term umlaut is used for two closely related notions: a special kind of vowel modification and a particular diacritic mark. ... Grammatical tense is a way languages express the time at which an event described by a sentence occurs. ... Modus can mean: A grammatical mood The Renault Modus, a small car made by Renault This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... In linguistics, a diaeresis or dieresis (AE) (from Greek diairein, to divide) is the modification of a syllable by distinctly pronouncing one of its vowels. ... A diacritical mark or accent mark is an additional mark added to a basic letter. ...


The other feature is omission of the letter "W", which is seen as a variant of "V", even though it is still recognised and maintained in names. Also "Ü" is recognised, but only used in names of German origin. Ü, or ü, is a glyph which represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, the letter U with umlaut, or a letter U with diaeresis. ...


Apart from this, diacritic marks are also used for "à" and "é". These are seen as variants of "a" and "e" and the accents are sometimes omitted for capital letters. A diacritical mark or accent mark is an additional mark added to a basic letter. ...


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