The Scandinavian languages treat the characters with diacritics Ã , Ã and Ã as new and separate letters of the alphabet , and sort them after z. Usually Ã is sorted as equal to Ã ( ash ) and Ã is sorted as equal to Ã ( o-slash ) . The Scandinavian languages , by contrast , treat the characters with diacritics Ã , Ã and Ã as new and separate letters of the alphabet , and sort them after z. Usually Ã is sorted as equal to Ã ( ash ) and Ã is sorted as equal to Ã ( o-slash ) .