The economic, political and social-cultural influence of current immigrants is far more beneficial to the nation than our media critics make them out to be. Hispanics are fast becoming the new foundation of our countryâs economic, political and social-cultural power.
umlaut - a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound. diaeresis, dieresis. diacritic, diacritical mark - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation. Translations.
The origin of the German umlaut is an abbreviated e, i.e. the vowel is influenced by the following (semi-)vowel e in a process called apophany, therefore the correct transliteration of an umlaut is to use an e after the vowel. Umlauts occur mostly in Germanic languages but also for example in Finnish.