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Ö, or ö, is a letter, representing a vowel, in the Finnish, Swedish, Icelandic, Estonian, Hungarian and Turkish alphabets. It also appears in the German alphabet, where it represents "O" with umlaut, and is alphabetized together with "O". In English, it designates pronunciation change called diaeresis.

Other alphabets are Azerbaijani, Welsh, Luxembourgian, South Sámi, Slovenian, Turkmen, Yapese and Dinka alphabet.

The origin of the letter form was as a ligature for the digraph "OE". In the Danish and Norwegian alphabets, "Ø" is the equivalent.

In Swedish ö is, like Danish ø, even an entire word, meaning island.

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