Ring (diacritic)
diacritic sign
A ring diacritic may appear above or below letters. It may be combined with some letters in various extended Latin alphabets either as a distinct letter or to indicate a modified pronunciation of the base letter.
Rings
Distinct letter
The character Å (å) is derived from an A with a ring. It is a distinct letter in the Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Walloon, and Chamorro alphabets. For example, the 29-letter Swedish alphabet begins with the basic 26 Latin letters and ends with the three letters Å, Ä, and Ö.
Overring
The character Ů (ů), a Latin U with overring, or kroužek, is a grapheme in Czech preserved for historic reasons, and represented a vowel shift. For example, the word for "horse" used to be written kóň, which evolved, along with pronunciation, into kuoň. Ultimately, the vowel [o] disappeared completely, and the uo evolved into ů, modern form kůň. The letter ů now has the same pronunciation as the letter ú (long [uː]), but changes to a short o when a word is morphed (e.g. nom. kůň → gen.
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