page_title: Å
section_title: Scandinavian languages
hierarchical_section_title: Å / Scandinavian languages
caption_attribution_description: Swedish keyboard
context_page_description: The letter Å represents various sounds in several languages. It is a separate letter in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, North Frisian, Walloon, Chamorro, Lule Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, and Greenlandic alphabets. Additionally, it is part of the alphabets used for some Alemannic and Austro-Bavarian dialects of German.
  Though Å is derived from an A, with an overring, it is considered a separate letter. It developed as a form of semi-ligature of an A with a smaller o above it to denote a long and darker A, similar to how the umlaut mark that distinguishes Ä from A, and Ö/Ø from O, developed from a small e written above the letter in question.
context_section_description: The å in Scandinavian alphabets represents two sounds, one short and one long.
  The short version represents IPA /ɔ/.
  In Swedish, the long version represents IPA /oː/. In Danish and Norwegian, the long version is pronounced IPA /ɔː/.
caption: Swedish/Finnish keyboard showing Å, Ä, and Ö
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