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À, à (a - grave) is a letter of the Catalan, Emilian-Romagnol, French, Italian, Maltese, Occitan, Portuguese, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, [1] Vietnamese, and Welsh languages consisting of the letter A of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and a grave accent. À is also used in Pinyin transliteration. In most languages, it represents the vowel a.
Dii, Gokana, Makari, Tarok, Võro, Yoruba, Yupik, Pinyin transliteration and other transliterations of Chinese dialects; previously used in Sorbian. M̂ m̂. M with circumflex. Accented Latvian, Luxembourgian, Old High German, Pe̍h-ōe-jī, Taiwanese Romanization System and other transliterations of Chinese dialects.
The grave accent marks the height or openness of the vowels e and o, indicating that they are pronounced open: è [ɛ] (as opposed to é [e]); ò [ɔ] (as opposed to ó [o]), in several Romance languages: Catalan uses the accent on three letters (a, e, and o). French orthography uses the accent on three letters (a, e, and u).
A with grave: Bulgarian, Macedonian (not individual letter, used in Dialects) А̂ а̂ A with circumflex: Bulgarian, Serbian (not individual letter, used in Dialects), Udege Ӑ ӑ: A with breve Chuvash Ӓ ӓ: A with diaerisis: Hill Mari, Kildin Sami, Khanty, Serbian (not individual letter, used in Dialects) А̄ а̄: A with macron
The backtick`is a typographical mark used mainly in computing. It is also known as backquote, grave, or grave accent. The character was designed for typewriters to add a grave accentto a (lower-case[a]) base letter, by overtyping it atop that letter.[1] On early computer systems, however, this physical dead key+overtype function was rarely ...
Both the Danish and Norwegian keyboards include dedicated keys for the letters Å /å, Æ /æ and Ø /ø, but the placement is a little different, as the Æ and Ø keys are swapped on the Norwegian layout. (The Finnish–Swedish keyboard is also largely similar to the Norwegian layout, but the Ø and Æ are replaced with Ö and Ä.
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
The term "circumflex" is also used to describe similar tonal accents that result from combining two vowels in related languages such as Sanskrit and Latin. Since Modern Greek has a stress accent instead of a pitch accent, the circumflex has been replaced with an acute accent in the modern monotonic orthography.