Editing Diacritic (section)

====Germanic====
:* [[German orthography|German]] uses the [[two dots (diacritic)|two-dots diacritic]] ({{langx|de|[[Umlaut (diacritic)|umlaut]]}}): letters {{Angbr|[[ä]]}}, {{angbr|[[ö]]}}, {{angbr|[[ü]]}}, used to indicate the [[fronting (phonology)|fronting]] of back vowels (see [[umlaut (linguistics)]]).
:* [[Dutch orthography|Dutch]] uses acute, circumflex, grave and two-dots diacritics with most vowels and cedilla with c, as in French. This results in {{angbr|[[á]]}}, {{angbr|[[à]]}}, {{angbr|[[ä]]}}, {{angbr|[[é]]}}, {{angbr|[[è]]}}, {{angbr|[[ê]]}}, {{angbr|[[ë]]}}, {{angbr|[[í]]}}, {{angbr|[[î]]}}, {{angbr|[[ï]]}}, {{angbr|[[ó]]}}, {{angbr|[[ô]]}}, {{angbr|[[ö]]}}, {{angbr|[[ú]]}}, {{angbr|[[û]]}}, {{angbr|[[ü]]}} and {{angbr|[[ç]]}}. This is mostly on words (and names) originating from French (like ''crème, café, gêne, façade''). The acute accent is also used to stress the vowel (like ''één''). The two-dots diacritic is used as a linguistic diaeresis (a [[vowel hiatus]]) that splits the two vowels, e.g., ''reële, reünie, coördinatie''), rather than to indicate a linguistic {{lang|de|umlaut}} as used in German.
:* [[Afrikaans alphabet|Afrikaans]] uses 16 additional vowel forms, both uppercase and lowercase: {{angbr|[[á]]}}, {{angbr|[[ä]]}}, {{angbr|[[é]]}}, {{angbr|[[è]]}}, {{angbr|[[ê]]}}, {{angbr|[[ë]]}}, {{angbr|[[í]]}}, {{angbr|[[î]]}}, {{angbr|[[ï]]}}, {{angbr|[[ó]]}}, {{angbr|[[ô]]}}, {{angbr|[[ö]]}}, {{angbr|[[ú]]}}, {{angbr|[[û]]}}, {{angbr|[[ü]]}}, {{angbr|[[ý]]}}. <!-- The precomposed digraph ŉ is not a letter and its use is deprecated. --> 
:* [[Faroese alphabet|Faroese]] uses acutes and some additional letters. All are considered separate letters and have their own place in the alphabet: {{angbr|[[á]]}}, {{angbr|[[í]]}}, {{angbr|[[ó]]}}, {{angbr|[[ú]]}}, {{angbr|[[ý]]}} and {{angbr|[[ø]]}}.
:* [[Icelandic orthography|Icelandic]] uses acutes and other additional letters. All are considered separate letters, and have their own place in the alphabet: {{angbr|[[á]]}}, {{angbr|[[é]]}}, {{angbr|[[í]]}}, {{angbr|[[ó]]}}, {{angbr|[[ú]]}}, {{angbr|[[ý]]}} and {{angbr|[[ö]]}}.
:* [[Danish alphabet|Danish]] and [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] use additional characters like the o-slash {{angbr|[[ø]]}} and the a-overring {{angbr|[[å]]}}. These letters come after {{angbr|z}} and {{angbr|[[æ]]}} in the order {{angbr|ø}}, {{angbr|å}}. Historically, the {{angbr|å}} has developed from a ligature by writing a small superscript {{angbr|a}} over a lowercase {{angbr|a}}; if an {{angbr|å}} character is unavailable, some Scandinavian languages allow the substitution of a doubled ''a'', thus {{angbr|aa}}. The Scandinavian languages collate these letters after {{angbr|z}}, but have different national [[collation]] standards.
:* [[Swedish alphabet|Swedish]] uses a-diaeresis ({{angbr|[[ä]]}}) and o-diaeresis ({{angbr|[[ö]]}}) in the place of {{lang|sv|ash}} ({{angbr|æ}}) and slashed o ({{angbr|[[ø]]}}) in addition to the a-overring ({{angbr|å}}). Historically, the two-dots diacritic for the Swedish letters {{angbr|ä}} and {{angbr|ö}} developed from a small Gothic {{angbr|e}} written above the letters. These letters are collated after {{angbr|z}}, in the order {{angbr|å}}, {{angbr|ä}}, {{angbr|ö}}.