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I always presumed that the œ ligature was later collapsed into ø, which is how Danish and Norwegians write the letter ö.


ö in Icelandic and Swedish is phonetically equivalent to ø in Danish and Norwegian.

However the æ in Danish and Norwegian is like the OE one described in the article, between a and e, which is written ä in Swedish. Icelandic does not have that sound, and uses æ in the Latin way, representing the ai diphthong (as in English "fine").

The more common vowels also have fairly different pronunciations in the four languages.




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