The Ü Alliance

Just thought of it when I was buying my breakfast:

If there is going to be an alliance among a Germany (Kaiserreich? or Bund, or Custom Union), a Turkey (Ottoman or Republican), a Hungary (Kingdom?) and a China (or North China, Imperial or Republican), we might call it the " Ü Alliance ", because they are the rare countries who speak languages containing the letter "Ü". XD

And probably such alliance system doesn't seem too outlandish.
 
Just thought of it when I was buying my breakfast:

If there is going to be an alliance among a Germany (Kaiserreich? or Bund, or Custom Union), a Turkey (Ottoman or Republican), a Hungary (Kingdom?) and a China (or North China, Imperial or Republican), we might call it the " Ü Alliance ", because they are the rare countries who speak languages containing the letter "Ü". XD

And probably such alliance system doesn't seem too outlandish.

So really all you would need to do would have an alt-Cental Powers that includes China, perhaps because of heightened tensions with Russia and Britain that forces the Chinese to be closer with Germany. Hungary is already united with German speaking Austria, so there you go.
 
Czech and Slovak also have Ü, so AHE sounds good.

A number of Turkic languages (Turkmen, Kazakh, Uyghur) have Ü too. Maybe a successful pan-turkic Turkey?

Some languages near the Baltic also have Ü, so something weakening Russia?
 
Czech and Slovak also have Ü, so AHE sounds good.

They do not. They have another diacritic on the letter U that looks similar but is different in both sound and grapheme. I believe some Scandinavian languages and Finnish do have it though (also, IIRC, Mongolian).
Additionally, are we talking about the letter Ü or the related sound (generally the same in German, Hungarian and Turkic languages, I am less sure about Chinese, where, however, it's a matter of transliteration conventions)? Cause Turkish in 1914 did not have that grapheme, being written in Arabic script still, while French and Dutch do possess the same sound although it's written with plain U.
 
Finnish, yes. No surprise since it's related to Hungarian.

Since the Germans proclaimed an independent Finland at the end of WW1, we could have this as well.
 
Germany that has Austria allies with the newly independent Hungary, similar developments as OTL leads a Ottoman-German alliance and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, Russian encroachment and a more powerful China (no warlord era?) leads it to German camp.
 
Even the Netherlands has it, even if only in some old words. Though, quite a few linguists try to fight over if that is a remnamt of the ü or if it is a new germanism
 
Finnish, yes. No surprise since it's related to Hungarian.

Since the Germans proclaimed an independent Finland at the end of WW1, we could have this as well.

I am looking at a Finnish keyboard right now, and like Jurgen Wullenwewer points out above, it does not include ü, only ö, ä and å and the last, I think, only due to it being the same keyboard the Swedish are using.

Another nitpick - it wasn't ze Germans that proclaimed an independent Finland. The Finns did that by themselves on December 6th 1917, thank you very much, and before there were any German troops in the country, for that matter.:p
 
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