tone, and various other uses where diaeresis or umlaut was available typographically. The IPA uses a double dot below a letter to indicate breathy (murmured) voice. Vowels In Albanian, Tagalog, and Kashubian, represents a schwa [ə]. In Aymara, a double dot is used on for vowel length. In the Basque dialect of Soule, represents In the DMG romanization of Tunisian Arabic, , , , , and represent , , , , and . In Ligurian official orthography, is used to represent the sound . In Māori, a diaeresis (e.g. ) was often used on computers in the past instead of the macron to indicate long vowels, as the diaeresis was relatively easy to produce on many systems, and the macron difficult or impossible. In Seneca, are nasal vowels, though is , as in German umlaut. In Vurës (Vanuatu), and encode respectively and . In the Pahawh Hmong script, a double dot is used as one of several tone marks. The double dot was used in the early Cyrillic alphabet, which was used to write Old Church Slavonic. The modern Cyrillic Belarusian and Russian alphabets include the letter (yo), although replacing it with the letter without the diacritic is allowed in Russian. Since the 1870s, , (Cyrillic letter yi) has been used in the Ukrainian alphabet for iotated ; plain і is not iotated . In Udmurt, ӥ is used for uniotated , with и for iotated . The form is common in Dutch handwriting and also occasionally used in printed text – but is a form of the digraph "ij" rather than a modification of the letter . Komi and Udmurt use (a Cyrillic O with two dots) for . The Swedish, Finnish and Estonian languages use and to represent and In the languages of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth novels, a diaeresis is used to separate vowels belonging to different syllables (e.g. in Eärendil) and on final e to mark it as not a schwa (e.g. in Manwë, Aulë, Oromë, etc.). (There is no schwa in these languages but Tolkien wanted to make sure that readers wouldn't mistakenly pronounce one when speaking the names aloud.) Consonants Jacaltec (a Mayan language) and Malagasy are among the very few languages with a double dot on the letter "n"; in both, n̈ is the velar nasal . In Udmurt, a double dot is also used with the consonant letters ӝ (from ж ), ӟ