* Tex Texin | | I gave a course in internationalization last week, and one of the | slides I used indicated that in Norwegian u-umlaut sorts with Y | between X and Z. Some Norwegians attending disputed this.
I doubt that there is an official standard for this, but I would expect to find � sorted with Y, given that Norwegian Y is pronounced just like Swedish/German/Dutch �. Many reference works sort V and W together, for example, according to the same principle. I see that my Norwegian atlas sorts "�" as "y", "�" as "�", and "�" as "�", while other diacritics do not affect the sorting. I notice that the Norwegian Sami[1] do the same thing with "�", but that they do "�" and "�" differently, possibly because these are native to Sami and pronounced differently in Sami than in Norwegian. However, I wouldn't be too surprised to find instances of different sort orders. | I see this is referenced elsewhere as well and is claimed to be true | for the other Scandanavian languages also. I notice that my notes for the sorting of a Swedish encyclopedia project sorted the following equivalently: W/V, �/Y, �/�, so that seems to be correct. | I scanned a couple dictionaries and couldn't find a use of u-umlaut. Nor can I, but I then I wouldn't expect to find it there, either. | a) Is it true or not that u-umlaut would sort with y, in | Scandanavian languages? In most cases I would expect it to. | b) Can someone offers some example words that demonstrate words with | u-umlaut sorting appropriately? I can't think of a Scandinavian word with "�" in it, actually. You'd have to look at an encyclopedia or atlas to find appropriate examples. | c) I am guessing that u-umlaut only appears in borrowed foreign | words. Correct. --Lars M. [1] <URL: http://www.hum.uit.no/a/trond/s197t.html >
