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12:06 Jul 18, 2011 |
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English to Finnish translations [PRO] Linguistics / Orthography | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Timo Lehtilä Finland Local time: 04:28 | ||||||
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the (..) above o and a fricatives Explanation: I think... |
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the (..) above o and a Pisteet o:n ja a:n päällä. Explanation: This was a question about translation from English into Finnish, and here I answer the question. In English, by the way, those (..) are called dots. |
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the (..) above o and a They are known as umlauts (this term come from the German language) Explanation: They are known as umlauts (this term come from the German language) and they are very useful when writing or reading Finnish. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2011-07-18 13:15:13 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- A trema (from the Greek τρῆμα trêma; plural tremas or tremata) is a diacritic consisting of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, most commonly a vowel. (When that letter is an i, the diacritic replaces the tittle: ï.) The trema is usually used to denote one of two distinct phonological phenomena: diaeresis (pronounced /daɪˈɛrɨsɨs/ dy-err-ə-səs), in which the trema is used to show that a vowel letter is not part of a digraph or diphthong; and umlaut (pronounced /ˈʊmlaʊt/ uum-lowt), in which the trema denotes a sound shift. From WIKIPEDIA Example sentence(s):
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the (..) above o and a treema / yläpuolinen pistepari / pisteet Explanation: "Treema" or "yläpuolinen pistepari" is the linguistic term for the two dots. You could also say "Pisteet a:n päällä" (as mentioned before by Timo). |
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the (..) above o and a ääntämistä osoittava merkki; diakriitinen Explanation: A diacritic is a mark placed over, under or through a letter to denote a sound value different from that of the same letter when unmarked. Reference: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/lang/finnish-letters.html |
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