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[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V6 #82



On Friday 25 May 2007 15:22:08 der Mouse wrote:
> >> 3/ Are there any accents or special letters in Dutch, i.e. letters
> >>    other than the 26 letters of the English alphabet?
> >
> > Yeah, but mostly in loanwords.  A common one is any vowel with an
> > umlaut, to point out that it should be pronounced separated from the
> > preceding identical vowel.
>
> Um, doesn't that make it a diaeresis, rather than an umlaut, then?
>
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Eh, yeah. I planned and forgot to type that. Didn't know the word either 
though.

Dominic

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