page_title: Ö
section_title: O-umlaut
hierarchical_section_title: Ö / O-umlaut
caption_attribution_description: English: Boundary marker on the Demeljoch, a mountain at the border between Austria and Germany. The "Ö" stands for "Österreich", i.e. Austria in German. The boundary marker is located a few meters east of the cross on the top of the Demeljoch. For an image of the other side of the stone, see File:Boundary stone on the Demeljoch - 2.jpg.
context_page_description: Ö, or ö, is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter "o" modified with an umlaut or diaeresis. In many languages, the letter "ö", or the "o" modified with an umlaut, is used to denote the non-close front rounded vowels or. In languages without such vowels, the character is known as an "o with diaeresis" and denotes a syllable break, wherein its pronunciation remains an unmodified.
context_section_description: The letter o with umlaut (ö) appears in some Germanic languages alphabets, namely the German alphabet, Swedish alphabet and Icelandic alphabet. It represents the umlauted form of o, resulting in [œ] or [ø]. The letter is often collated together with o in the German alphabet, but there are exceptions which collate it like oe or OE. The letter also occurs in some languages that have adopted German names or spellings, but it is not normally a part of those alphabets. In Danish and Norwegian, ö was previously used in place of ø in older texts to distinguish between open and closed ö-sounds. It is also used when confusion with other symbols could occur, on maps for instance. The Dano-Norwegian ø is, like the German ö, a development of oe and can be compared with the French œ.
  In other languages that do not have the letter as part of the regular alphabet or in limited character sets such as ASCII, o-umlaut is frequently replaced with the digraph oe. For example, in German hören (hear/listen) can be easily recognized even if spelled hoeren.
caption: The letter Ö, standing for Österreich, i.e. Austria, on a boundary stone at the German-Austrian border.
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