^ Marcel Courthiade (2009), “DECISION : "THE ROMANI ALPHABET"”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög (in Hungarian English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház-Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 499.( International Standard ) Used to represent a dialectal centralized vowel.Elsewhere it must be interpreted as a distinct phoneme /æː/, which is restricted to borrowings. In native Luxembourgish words this sound occurs only before r as an allophone of /eː/. If no German cognate exists, ä is used when there is a closely related Luxembourgish word with a. Fläsch and Fräsch (German Flasche, Frosch). Ä is used when the German word has one of a, ä, o, ö, thus e.g.
Otherwise its use is chiefly dependent on the spelling of the German cognate. The short vowel is spelt ä (rather than e) when it occurs as an umlaut in inflections.
A letter used in Luxembourgish spelling: an umlauted version of A.IPA ( key): /eː ~ æː/, ( long phoneme ).↑ 1.0 1.1 Kimmo Granqvist (2011), “Aakkoset ”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi (in Finnish), Kotimaisten kielten keskus, →ISBN, ISSN 1796-041X, retrieved February 6, 2022, pages 1-2.a letter used in German spelling: an umlauted version of A.Ä n ( strong, genitive Ä or Äs, plural Ä or Äs) In many other regions the two are merged in normal speech, though speakers may nevertheless distinguish them in individual words and in enunciation. The distinction between long /ɛː/ and /eː/ is maintained in some regions, including Switzerland and most of western Germany.( Latin-script letters ) kirjain A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s ( Š š), T t, U u, V v ( W w), X x, Y y, Z z ( Ž ž), Å å, Ä ä, Ö ö.The twenty-seventh letter of the Finnish alphabet, called ää and written in the Latin script.( Latin-script letters ) täht A a, B b ( C c), D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p ( Q q), R r, S s, Š š, Z z, Ž ž, T t, U u, V v ( W w), Õ õ, Ä ä, Ö ö, Ü ü ( X x, Y y)įrom Swedish Ä and/or its origin, German Ä, in which the umlaut (two dots) were originally a lowercase e, first placed to the side and later on top of a/ A to signify fronting of the vowel via Germanic umlaut.