Yes, we can say goodbye to the shake! This is totally suppressed of Portuguese words, as well as Portuguese words.
Let us always remember that the umlaut is not an accent but a graphic sign, even though it follows the accent in the spelling agreement. This sign is called dieresis, which means the separation of two adjacent vowels into different syllables.
Therefore, words that were normally written with the umlaut, such as: sausage, tranquil, linguistic, bilingual, frequent, fifty, hang on, etc. they no longer have the umlaut.
This new rule was justified by the fact that there are diphthongs in the language that don't need the umlaut to indicate to the reader that the “u” has to be pronounced or not, as in: tongue and hot. In the first case, it is known that the “u” must be pronounced and in the second not. This fact has to do not with spelling but with phonetics, that is, with the way of saying and not with the way of writing, making the umlaut unnecessary. So why would we keep flagging sausages, for example?
The suppression of this sign directly affects Brazil, since other countries that have Portuguese as their official language do not use it.
Down with the tremor, long live the independence of the diphthong!
An observation to be made, as suggested to us, is that the umlaut continues only in proper names and their derivatives: Müller, Müllerian, Bündchen, Hübner, Hübnerian, and so on.
By Sabrina Vilarinho
Graduated in Letters
Brazil School Team
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Source: Brazil School - https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/acordo-ortografico/trema-e-hora-de-partir.htm
