Diaeresis
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- This article is about the phonological term. For typographic issues of the diacritic ¨, see Umlaut (diacritic).
The diacritic mark composed of two small dots ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel to indicate this modification is also called a diaeresis, or a trema. It replaces the single dot on "i".
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