german words in english with diacritical marks

⟨u⟩ instead of ⟨ü⟩) would be wrong and misleading. When it is not possible to use the umlauts (for example, when using a restricted character set) the characters ⟨Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ö, ü⟩ should be transcribed as ⟨Ae, Oe, Ue, ae, oe, ue⟩ respectively, following the earlier postvocalic-⟨e⟩ convention simply using the base vowel (e.g.

Although the two dots of umlaut look like those in the diaeresis (trema), the two have different origins and functions. In German Kurrent writing, the superscripted ⟨e⟩ was simplified to two vertical dashes (as the Kurrent ⟨e⟩ consists largely of two short vertical strokes), which have further been reduced to dots in both handwriting and German typesetting. Before the introduction of the printing press, frontalization was indicated by placing an ⟨e⟩ after the back vowel to be modified, but German printers developed the space-saving typographical convention of replacing the full ⟨e⟩ with a small version placed above the vowel to be modified. The accented letters ⟨ ä, ö, ü⟩ are used to indicate the presence of umlauts ( fronting of back vowels). German has four special letters three are vowels accented with an umlaut sign (⟨ ä, ö, ü⟩) and one is derived from a ligature of ⟨ſ⟩ ( long s) and ⟨z⟩ (⟨ ß⟩ called Eszett 'ess-zed/zee' or scharfes S 'sharp s'), all of which are officially considered distinct letters of the alphabet, and have their own names separate from the letters they are based on. The modern German alphabet consists of the twenty-six letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet plus four special letters.

German words in english with diacritical marks