<Table> <Tr> <Td> Ä </Td> <Td> ä </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> Ä </Td> <Td> ä </Td> </Tr> <P> Ä (lower case ä) is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter A with an umlaut mark or diaeresis . </P> <P> The letter Ä occurs as an independent letter in the Swedish, Finnish, Skolt Sami, Karelian, Estonian, Luxembourgish, North Frisian, Saterlandic, Emiliano - Romagnolo, Rotuman, Slovak, Tatar, Gagauz, and Turkmen alphabets, where it represents a vowel sound . In Finnish and Turkmen this is always / æ /; in Swedish and Estonian, regional variation, as well as the letter's position in a word, allows for either (æ) and (ɛ). In German and Slovak Ä stands for (ɛ) (or a bit archaic but still correct (æ)). </P>

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