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The grapheme Ć (minuscule: ć), formed from C with the addition of an acute accent, is used in various languages. It usually denotes [t͡ɕ], the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate, including in phonetic transcription. Its Unicode codepoints are U+0106 for Ć and U+0107 for ć.
The African Reference Alphabet is a largely defunct continent-wide guideline for the creation of Latin alphabets for African languages. Two variants of the initial proposal (one in English and a second in French) were made at a 1978 UNESCO -organized conference held in Niamey , Niger.
The acute accent (/ ə ˈ k j uː t /), ́, is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin and Greek alphabets, precomposed characters are available.
Most of the affected words are in terms imported from other languages. [2] The two dots accent (diaeresis or umlaut), the grave accent, and the acute accent are the only diacritics native to Modern English, and their usage has tended to fall off except in certain publications and particular cases. [3]
Nasal vowels are indicated by a tilde and tones are indicated by an acute or grave accent: The high tone is indicated by an acute accent : á, ã́, é, ẹ́, ẽ́, í, ĩ́, ó, ọ́, ṍ, ú, ṹ, ḿ ;
The Africa Alphabet (also International African Alphabet or IAI alphabet) is a set of letters designed as the basis for Latin alphabets for the languages of Africa.It was initially developed in 1928 by the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures from a combination of the English alphabet and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
Acute accent marks the rising tone: xó, dó; Grave accent marks the falling tone: ɖò, akpàkpà; Caron marks falling and rising tone: bǔ, bǐ; Circumflex accent marks the rising and falling tone: côfù; Macron marks the neutral tone: kān; Tones are fully marked in reference books, but not always marked in other writing.
The first acute accent (á) in a word represents a high tone. The low tone is represented by a grave accent (à). ... Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 4 ...