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French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.
Circumflex accent: U+005F _ Low line: U+0060 ` Grave accent: Lowercase Latin alphabet U+0061 a Latin Small Letter A: U+0062 b Latin Small Letter B: U+0063 c Latin Small Letter C: U+0064 d Latin Small Letter D: U+0065 e Latin Small Letter E: U+0066 f Latin Small Letter F: U+0067 g Latin Small Letter G: U+0068 h Latin Small Letter H: U+0069 i ...
The acute (accent aigu) is only used in "é", modifying the "e" to make the sound /e/, as in étoile ("star"). The circumflex (accent circonflexe) generally denotes that an S once followed the vowel in Old French or Latin, as in fête ("party"), the Old French being feste and the Latin being festum. Whether the circumflex modifies the vowel's ...
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 ...
French phonology is the sound system of French.This article discusses mainly the phonology of all the varieties of Standard French.Notable phonological features include the uvular r present in some accents, nasal vowels, and three processes affecting word-final sounds:
Accent (phonetics), prominence given to a particular syllable in a word, or a word in a phrase Pitch accent, prominence signaled primarily by pitch; Accent (poetry), placement of prominent syllables in scansion; Diacritic, a mark added above, on top of, or below a letter; Fallacy of accent, a logical fallacy related to reification
The Latin-1 Punctuation and Symbols subheading contains 32 characters of common international punctuation characters, such as the inverted question and exclamation marks, a middle dot, and symbols such as currency signs, spacing diacritic marks, vulgar fractions, and superscript numbers.
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