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Registrering av diakritiska tecken i invandrade personnamn

Abstract

This paper presents a quantitative study of the registration of diacritics in Hungarian, Spanish, Vietnamese and Turkish family names in the official Swedish population records. Out of the examined diacritics, vowels with accents and the Turkish letter <ç> are registered in up to 21 % of the cases, whereas the Turkish letter <ü> is registered in over 90 % of the occurrences. The author discusses possible explanations for this pattern. Parts of a bigger interview study is also presented, where informants share their views of diacritics in the Swedish population records.