• tromars@feddit.org
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    1 year ago

    That’s how umlauts historically evolved, but nowadays I wouldn‘t say ü short for ue, but its own letter (even though you still can write it as ue if you don’t have it available on your keyboard or whatever)

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      1 year ago

      Well, my point is that it’s not considered a u, and Austrian and Swiss don’t use it.

      Also, fun fact, some romance languages like French and Brazilian Portuguese have an identical diacritic to umlaut but it’s different. It’s meant to mean the vowel is separate (like in the word naïve)