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A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, "distinguishing"), from διακρίνω (diakrínō, "to distinguish").
Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...
Letters with descender (diacritic) (17 P) Letters with diaeresis (33 P) Letters with dot (22 P) Letters with grave (16 P) ... This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. ... (diacritic), Caret (computing), ... Diacritic – Modifier mark added to a letter ...
This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.
Letters with diacritics (17 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Diacritics" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Double bar (diacritic) T. Tehta ...
Compound diacritics are possible, for example U+01DA ǚ LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS AND CARON, used as a tonal marks for Hanyu Pinyin, which uses both a two dots diacritic with a caron diacritic. Conversely, when the letter to be accented is an i , the diacritic replaces the tittle, thus: ï .
The letter for the retroflex implosive, ᶑ , is not "explicitly IPA approved", [66] but has the expected form if such a symbol were to be approved. The ejective diacritic is placed at the right-hand margin of the consonant, rather than immediately after the letter for the stop: t͜ʃʼ , kʷʼ .