Nanjing dialect
The letter Ä occurs as an independent letter in the Finnish, Swedish, Skolt Sami, Karelian, Estonian, Luxembourgish, North Frisian, Saterlandic, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Rotuman, Slovak, Tatar, Gagauz, German, and Turkmen alphabets, where it represents a vowel sound. In Finnish, Turkmen and Tatar this is always ; in Swedish and Estonian, regional variation, as well as the letter's position in a word, allows for either or . In German and Slovak "Ä" stands for (or the archaic but correct ). In the romanization of the Nanjing dialect "Ä" stands for .