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== Ring Above in Unicode ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Precomposed Letters with Ring Above
| style="font-size:180%" | ˚ || style="font-size:180%" | ◌̊ || style="font-size:180%" | Å || style="font-size:180%" | å || style="font-size:180%" | Ǻ || style="font-size:180%" | ǻ || style="font-size:180%" | Ů || style="font-size:180%" | ů || style="font-size:180%" | ẘ || style="font-size:180%" | 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
|-
| colspan="2" | '''Note:''' May be confused with the Degree Sign, ° (U+00B0); or Masculine Ordinal Indicator, º (U+00BA). || '''Note:''' May be confused with the Ångström Sign, Å (U+212B). || || || || || || ||
|}
 
== Natlang Examples ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Uses of Ring Above
! Use
! Language
! Letters
! Notes
|-
| rowspan=3 | Back version of front vowel. Often also rounded.
| [[Wikipedia:Chamorro_language|Chamorro]]
| Åå /ɑ/
|
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Danish_language|Danish]], [[Norwegian]]
| Åå /ɔ/
| From an earlier digraph aa representing /ɔ/, which in turn came from /aː/.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85]
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Swedish_language|Swedish]]
| Åå /o/
| From an earlier digraph aa representing /ɔ/, which in turn came from /aː/.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85]
|-
| Long vowel
| [[Wikipedia:Czech_language|Czech]]
| Ůů /uː/
| This comes from a diphthong /uo/, where the o was sometimes written as a ring above the u. A sound change then turned /uo/ into /uː/.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_orthography#Letter_.C5.AE]
|}
 
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