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The two dots above a letter, you mean, would be called a diaeresis and/or an umlaut.
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It means that the "U" now says oo as in boo
The dots over i and j are called tittles. This is what wikipedia says:The tittle first appeared in Latin manuscripts in the 11th century, to distinguish the letter i from strokes of nearby letters. Although originally a larger mark, it was reduced to a dot when Roman-style typefaces were introduced.The 'u' or 'j' with two dots over are used in some languages,hungarian, Portuguese, to represent a different vowel sound to the English sound.I think they represent a vowel that is more 'fronted' than the English vowel.
An "a" with two dots over it, known as an "ä," typically represents a sound similar to the "a" in "cat" or "bat," but with a more open and rounded quality. This diacritic is commonly found in languages like German and Swedish, where it alters the pronunciation from a standard "a" sound to a more distinct vowel sound.