Ed. Note: The following was compiled by Linnae Coss to help with the writing of website content where proper names and terms may, in Swedish, use notation using diacritical marking.
Swedish diacritical marks list
Use these to copy-and-paste into a document: å ä ö Å
To search for letters with diacritical marks with the computer, (1) click on “insert” at the top left of the screen, (2)click “symbol” at the top right of the screen, (3) move through the “symbols” until you find the right one, (4) click on it, (5) click the “insert” button at the bottom of the symbol screen. It will insert the symbol wherever you last clicked in the body of your text.
By the way, in the Swedish alphabet, the letters with diacritical marks – å, ä, and ö (or in capital letters: Å, Ä, Ö) – come at the end of the alphabet, in that order, after Z. So the alphabet has 29, not 26, letters.
Some Swedish words that use diacritical marks:
(It is easier to copy-and-paste the whole word if you can find it here)
Småland
Kånna
Göran
Göransson
Göransdotter
Jönköping
Malmö
Södra Ljunga
Säby Parish, Jönköping
Marbäck
Kärsti Johansson
Pjätteryd
Växjö
Åke Nilsson (1735-1810)
‘The Hard Year’ (‘Nod År’)
Some Swedish words which do not use diacritical marks:
Frans
Johansdotter
Andersdotter
Lagan River
Frinnaryd
The following is a downloadable version of a Word document of the content above.
2 replies on “Swedish Notation”
This has been helpful Linnae. Thanks for taking the time to explain this so clearly.
I agree! Good job Linnae!