Umlaut
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Umlaut may refer to:
- Diaeresis (diacritic), a pair of dots ( ¨ ) above a vowel, used in German to mark umlaut
- Metal umlaut, the same diacritic in names of heavy metal or hard rock bands for effect
- I-mutationI-mutationI-mutation is an important type of sound change, more precisely a category of regressive metaphony, in which a back vowel is fronted, and/or a front vowel is raised, if the following syllable contains /i/, /ī/ or /j/ I-mutation (also known as umlaut, front mutation, i-umlaut, i/j-mutation or...
or umlaut, historic vowel fronting or raising in any language- Germanic umlautGermanic umlautIn linguistics, umlaut is a process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel. The term umlaut was originally coined and is used principally in connection with the study of the Germanic languages...
, this process in Germanic languages - Affection (linguistics)Affection (linguistics)In Celtic linguistics, affection is the change in the quality of a vowel under the influence of the vowel of the following, final syllable. The vowel triggering the change may or may not still be present in the modern language.The two main types of affection are a-infection and i-infection...
, this process in Celtic languages - Regressive vowel harmonyVowel harmonyVowel harmony is a type of long-distance assimilatory phonological process involving vowels that occurs in some languages. In languages with vowel harmony, there are constraints on which vowels may be found near each other....
- Umlaut vowel can refer to any front rounded vowel:
- Close front rounded vowelClose front rounded vowelThe close front rounded vowel, or high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is y...
[y] - Close-mid front rounded vowelClose-mid front rounded vowelThe close-mid front rounded vowel, or high-mid front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a lowercase letter o with a diagonal stroke through it, derived from the Danish, Norwegian...
[ø] - Open-mid front rounded vowel [œ]
- Open front rounded vowelOpen front rounded vowelThe open front rounded vowel, or low front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, not confirmed to be phonemic in any spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is &. The symbol is a small caps rendition...
[ɶ]
- Close front rounded vowel
- Germanic umlaut
- Lars Umlaut, a character playable in the Guitar HeroGuitar HeroGuitar Hero is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It is the first entry in the Guitar Hero series. Guitar Hero was released on November 8, 2005 in North America, April 7, 2006 in Europe and June 15, 2006 in...
series of music video games - Umläut, Clinton McKinnonClinton McKinnonClinton "Bär" McKinnon is an American musician, perhaps best known playing saxophone in seminal San Francisco based band Mr. Bungle....
's experimental Australian rock band