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    meaning of how ⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent)...
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    transcribed by one or more IPA symbols of two basic types: letters and diacritics. For example, the sound of the English digraph ⟨ch⟩ may be transcribed...
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  • dots diacritic placed over a letter, generally a vowel; when that letter is an ⟨i⟩, the diacritic replaces the tittle: ⟨ï⟩. The diaeresis diacritic indicates...
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  • The horn (Vietnamese: dấu móc or dấu râu) is a diacritic mark attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u in the Vietnamese alphabet to give...
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  • Though the standard diacritic involved is a macron, there are no other diacritics used above letters, so in practice other diacritics can and have been...
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  • how ⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot refers to the glyphs "combining dot above" (◌̇), and...
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    changed vowel sound. (In some Romance and other languages, the diaeresis diacritic has the same appearance but a different function.) Umlaut (literally "changed...
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  • A ring diacritic may appear above or below letters. It may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in various contexts. The character...
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  • Tilde (redirect from Tilde (diacritic))
    titulus, meaning 'title' or 'superscription'. Its primary use is as a diacritic (accent) in combination with a base letter. Its freestanding form is used...
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    Arabic script has numerous diacritics, which include consonant pointing known as iʻjām (إِعْجَام), and supplementary diacritics known as tashkīl (تَشْكِيل)...
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  • umlaut diacritic and the diaeresis rather than their function and is used in those contexts to refer to either. As the "diaeresis" diacritic, it is used...
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  • Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period. The more complex polytonic orthography (Greek: πολυτονικό σύστημα...
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  • conjuncts instead of Latin letters. In typesetting, the hook or tail is a diacritic mark attached to letters in many alphabets. In shape it looks like a hook...
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  • English rarely uses diacritics, which are symbols indicating the modification of a letter's sound when spoken. Most of the affected words are in terms...
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  • as ANSEL), and it is possible to add several diacritics to the same character, including stacked diacritics above and below, though some systems may not...
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  • Latin diacritics may refer to: diacritics of the Latin alphabet diacritics used in the Latin language (see Latin spelling and pronunciation § Letters and...
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  • of the consonant to which they are added. There are also a number of diacritics used to indicate further modifications in pronunciation. The script also...
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  • modification consisting of a line drawn through a grapheme. It may be used as a diacritic to derive new letters from old ones, or simply as an addition to make...
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  • Currency symbol – Symbol used to represent a monetary currency's name Diacritic – Modifier mark added to a letter (accent marks etc.) Hebrew punctuation –...
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  • alphabets, precomposed characters are available. For less-used and compound diacritics, a combining character facility is available. A free-standing version...
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  • Circumflex (category Latin-script diacritics)
    IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The circumflex (◌̂) is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is also used in the written forms...
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  • Acute accent (redirect from Acute diacritic)
    and transcription delimiters. The acute accent (/əˈkjuːt/), ◌́, is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin...
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    Speech, commonly abbreviated extIPA /ɛkˈstaɪpə/, are a set of letters and diacritics devised by the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association...
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  • adding the "seagull" diacritic, U+033C ◌̼ COMBINING SEAGULL BELOW, to the corresponding alveolar consonant, or with the apical diacritic, U+033A ◌̺ COMBINING...
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  • apex is often considerably displaced to the right. Essentially the same diacritic, conventionally called in English the acute accent, is used today for...
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  • This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Greek numerals, also known...
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  • vowel: The diacritic for U used by Mandailing, Pakpak, Simalungun, and Toba can form ligatures with its base character: In Mandailing, the diacritic tompi...
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    letters, the effect of diacritics is language-dependent. English is the only major modern European language that requires no diacritics for its native vocabulary...
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  • early 19th century, it began to be used in both Latin and Cyrillic as a diacritic to mark prosody in the systematic study of the Serbo-Croatian linguistic...
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  • spelling of other forms. Also, a system of vowel points to indicate vowels (diacritics), called niqqud, was developed. In modern forms of the alphabet, as in...
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