å carried over from the Swedish alphabet, for writing Finland-Swedish proper names.
š and ž occur in some loanwords.
To type directly with the computer keyboard:
The special characters can be typed with the key [alt] and this code:
Ä | Ö | Å |
142 | 153 | 143 |
ä | ö | å |
132 | 148 | 134 |
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