Ring Above
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The ring above diacritic originates from two letters, Åå and Ůů. Åå evolved from an earlier digraph, Aa aa, which eventually turned into Åå in Scandinavia.[1] Ůů comes from a digraph Uo uo in Czech.[2]
Ring Above in Unicode
| ˚ | ◌̊ | Å | å | Ǻ | ǻ | Ů | ů | ẘ | ẙ |
| U+02DA | U+030A | U+00C5 | U+00E5 | U+01FA | U+01FB | U+016E | U+016F | U+1E98 | U+1E99 |
| Ring Above | Combining Ring Above | Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above | Latin Small Letter A With Ring Above | Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above And Acute | Latin Small Letter A With Ring Above And Acute | Latin Capital Letter U With Ring Above | Latin Small Letter U With Ring Above | Latin Small Letter W With Ring Above | Latin Small Letter Y With Ring Above |
| Note: May be confused with the Degree Sign, ° (U+00B0); Masculine Ordinal Indicator, º (U+00BA); Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark, ゜ (U+309C); or Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark, ◌゚ (U+309A). | Note: May be confused with the Ångström Sign, Å (U+212B). | ||||||||
Ring Above in Natlangs
| Use | Language | Letters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Back version of front vowel. Often also rounded. | Chamorro | Åå /ɑ/ | |
| Danish, Norwegian | Åå /ɔ/ | From an earlier digraph Aa aa representing /ɔ/, which in turn came from /aː/.[1] | |
| Swedish | Åå /o/ | From an earlier digraph Aa aa representing /ɔ/, which in turn came from /aː/.[1] | |
| Long vowel | Czech | Ůů /uː/ | This comes from a diphthong /uo/, where the /o/ was sometimes written as a ring above the Uu. /uo/ then turned into /uː/ through a sound change.[3] |
Ring Above in Phonetic Transcription
| Use | Transcription system | Characters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unvoiced sound | International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) | ◌̊ | An allograph of ◌̥, when the ring cannot be fitted underneath the base letter.[4] The ring diacritic is used on letters representing voiced sounds, when there is no dedicated symbol for the voiceless version of the sound. It may also be used with symbols for voiced sounds to represent slack voice.[5] |
See Also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Å at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Ring (diacritic), Ring above at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Czech orthography, Letter Ů at Wikipedia.
- ↑ International Phonetic Alphabet, Diacritics at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Slack voice at Wikipedia
