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The circumflex is known as hirnod "long sign" or acen grom "crooked accent", but more usually and colloquially as to bach "little roof". It lengthens a stressed vowel (a, e, i, o, u, w, y), and is used particularly to differentiate between homographs; e.g. tan and tân, ffon and ffôn, gem and gêm, cyn and cŷn, or gwn and gŵn. However the ...
Latin Capital Letter Y with circumflex 0310 U+0177 ŷ 375 ŷ Latin Small Letter Y with circumflex 0311 U+0178 Ÿ 376 Ÿ Latin Capital Letter Y with diaeresis: 0312 U+0179 Ź 377 Ź Latin Capital Letter Z with acute: 0313 U+017A ź 378 ź Latin Small Letter Z with acute 0314 U+017B Ż 379 Ż Latin Capital Letter Z with ...
A with circumflex and cedilla: Pana Ǎ̧ ǎ̧: A with caron and cedilla: Mundani A̭ a̭: A with circumflex below: Juǀʼhoansi: A̰ a̰: A with tilde below: Kharosthi transliteration, Ngambay, Zarma: À̰ à̰: A with tilde below and grave: Nateni Á̰ á̰: A with tilde below and acute: Mbelime, Nateni: Ā̰ ā̰: A with tilde below and ...
Latin Extended Additional is a Unicode block.. The characters in this block are mostly precomposed combinations of Latin letters with one or more general diacritical marks. . Ninety of the characters are used in the Vietnamese alpha
The circumflex (ˆ) is mostly used to mark long vowels, so â, ê, î, ô, û, ŵ, ŷ are always long. However, not all long vowels are marked with a circumflex, so the letters a, e, i, o, u, w, y with no circumflex do not necessarily represent short vowels; see § Predicting vowel length from orthography.
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Welsh uses the circumflex, diaeresis, acute, and grave on its seven vowels a, e, i, o, u, w, y. The most common is the circumflex (which it calls to bach, meaning "little roof", or acen grom "crooked accent", or hirnod "long sign") to denote a long vowel, usually to disambiguate it from a similar word with a short vowel or a semivowel. The ...
Latin Y with acute. Ý (ý) is a letter of the Czech, Icelandic, Faroese, the Slovak, and Turkmen alphabets, as well being used in romanisations of Russian. In Vietnamese it is a y with a high rising tonal diacritic. It was used in Old Norse, Old Castillian, and Old Astur-Leonese. Originally, the letter Ý was formed from the letter Y and acute ...