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* [[Umlaut]] (or trema) ('''ü''') - An accent, represented by two dots above the vowel, used in some languages, especially [[German]] and [[Afrikaans]] and Nordic languages like [[Swedish]] and [[Finnish]].

* [[Umlaut]] (or trema) ('''ü''') - An accent, represented by two dots above the vowel, used in some languages, especially [[German]] and [[Afrikaans]] and Nordic languages like [[Swedish]] and [[Finnish]].

Eight upper case characters with diacritics are included in International Morse Code: Ä, Á, Å, Ch, É, Ñ, Ö, and Ü. This system also includes the twenty six characters of the Latin alphabet, ten numerals, and punctuation. It was developed by Friedrich Clemens Gerke in 1848 and was adopted as an international standard in 1865. Extended ASCII, an eight-bit encoding standard introduced in 1981 with the IBM PC, has 37 characters with diacritics, both upper case and lower case. "Latin-1," a slightly revised version of this standard, is still used in Western European typography. Unicode UTF-16, implemented by the Windows operating system since 2000, also includes Nordic, Eastern European, and Vietnamese diacritics.

Sounds unique to Eastern European languages were once written with two letter combination called "digraphs." Jan Hus proposed the use of diacritics in ''De Ortographia Bohemica'' (1412). Eight upper case characters with diacritics are included in International Morse Code: Ä, Á, Å, Ch, É, Ñ, Ö, and Ü. This system also includes the twenty six characters of the Latin alphabet, ten numerals, and punctuation. It was developed by Friedrich Clemens Gerke in 1848 and was adopted as an international standard in 1865. Extended ASCII, an eight-bit encoding standard introduced in 1981 with the IBM PC, has 37 characters with diacritics, both upper case and lower case. "Latin-1," a slightly revised version of this standard, is still used in Western European typography.<ref>[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf Controls and Latin-1 Supplement], Unicode, Inc.</ref> Unicode, implemented by the Windows operating system since 2000, has an enormous character set that includes Nordic, Eastern European, and even Vietnamese diacritics.

==Correct usage==

==Correct usage==

==Further Reading==

==Further Reading==

*''The Merriam-Webster Geographic Dictionary''. Recommended by CMOS. ''Britannica'' follows this naming style, so you get the same information from their site.

*''The Merriam-Webster Geographic Dictionary''. Recommended by CMOS. ''Britannica'' follows this naming style, so you get this information from their site.

*''National Geographic Atlas of the World''. Recommended by AP.

*''National Geographic Atlas of the World''. Recommended by AP.