What is the name of the character, consisting of two dots, placed over a vowel, especially in German, which changes the sound of that vowel in pronunciation?
Vowel breaking back umlaut and which block them varies from dialect to dialect. Proto-Germanic stressed short "e" becomes "ja" or (before "u") "jǫ" regularly in Old Norse except after "w, r, l". Examples are: According to some scholars, the diphthongisation of "e" is an unconditioned sound change, whereas other scholars speak about epenthesis or umlaut. Vowel breaking is present in Scottish Gaelic with the following changes occurring often but variably between dialects: Archaic Irish "eː" → Scottish Gaelic "iə" and Archaic Irish "oː" → Scottish Gaelic "uə" Specifically, central dialects have more vowel breaking than others. Many Romance languages underwent vowel breaking.
Vowel the vowel sounds of "flower", , form a triphthong or disyllable, depending on dialect. In phonology, diphthongs and triphthongs are distinguished from sequences of monophthongs by whether the vowel sound may be analyzed into different phonemes or not. For example, the vowel sounds in a two-syllable pronunciation of the word "flower" () phonetically form a disyllabic triphthong, but are phonologically a sequence of a diphthong (represented by the letters ) and a monophthong (represented by the letters ). Some linguists use the terms "diphthong" and "triphthong" only in this phonemic sense. The name "vowel" is often used for the symbols