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A breve (/ ˈ b r iː v / ⓘ BREEV, less often / ˈ b r ɛ v / ⓘ BREV, neuter form of the Latin brevis "short, brief") is the diacritic mark ̆, shaped like the bottom half of a circle. As used in Ancient Greek , it is also called brachy , βραχύ .
In the cases of maté from Spanish mate (/ ˈ m ɑː t eɪ /; Spanish:), animé from Japanese anime, and latté or even lattè from Italian latte (/ ˈ l ɑː t eɪ /; Italian pronunciation: ⓘ), an accent on the final e indicates that the word is pronounced with / eɪ / ⓘ at the end, rather than the e being silent.
̆ – breve; for example ŏ ̑ – inverted breve; for example ȏ ͗ – sicilicus, a palaeographic diacritic similar to a caron or breve ̃ – tilde; for example õ ҃ – titlo; vertical stroke ̩ – a subscript vertical stroke is used in IPA to mark syllabicity and in Rheinische Dokumenta to mark a schwa
Short U (Ў ў; italics: Ў ў) or U with breve is a letter of the Cyrillic script. The only Slavic language using the letter in its orthography is Belarusian , but it is also used as a phonetic symbol in some Russian and Ukrainian dictionaries. [ 1 ]
A with breve (Ӑ ӑ; italics: Ӑ ӑ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It may be a homoglyph of the Latin letter A with breve (Ă ă Ă ă) unless the typeface distinguishes between the Latin and Cyrillic breve. It is used in the Chuvash and Khanty [which?] alphabets. It appears in some Nenets dictionaries as well. [1]
Ă or ă , usually referred to in English as A-breve, is a letter used in standard Romanian and Vietnamese orthographies. In Romanian, it is used to represent the mid-central unrounded vowel , while in Vietnamese it represents the short a sound.
The accent mark is known as a breve. This letter should not be confused with u-caron, which is used to indicate u in the third tone of Chinese language pinyin; compare Ǔ ǔ (caron) with Ŭ ŭ (breve). It resembles an italic form of a Cyrillic Short I (Й й).
Before then, the pronunciation of Latin in church was the same as the pronunciation of Latin in other fields and tended to reflect the sound values associated with the nationality and native language of the speaker. [66] Other ecclesiastical pronunciations are still in use, especially outside the Catholic Church.