Karelian alphabet are from the ISO basic Latin alphabet, five are derived from basic Latin letters by the addition of diacritical marks, and the final character is the apostrophe, which signifies palatalization of the preceding sound. The entire range of sounds of native Karelian words is intended to be represented by this set of characters. This unified alphabet was approved in 2007 as a replacement for the separate Olonets Karelian and Karelian Proper alphabets. The letters Ä and Ö are vowels which, unlike the German umlauts, are considered to be distinct and are alphabetized separately from the corresponding vowels without the umlauts.
Elfdalian alphabet Elfdalian alphabet The Dalecarlian alphabet consists of 32 letters, 25 derived from the Swedish alphabet, and seven additional letters: vowels with an ogonek diacritic, denoting nasality: ("Ąą", "Ęę", "Įį", "Ųų", "Y̨y̨", and "Ą̊ą̊") as well as the consonant "Ðð" (eð), denoting voiced dental fricative, as 'th' in 'father'. The letters "Cc", "Qq", "Xx" and "Zz" are only used in names and foreign words. The alphabet is used for the Elfdalian language and for other Dalecarlian dialects. All except Ą̊ and ą̊ are available as characters in the Unicode standard. Ą̊ and ą̊ can be produced by Ą or ą and