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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 ...
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"). The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in ...
Some English words have diacritics. The form preferred by most English-language sources is commonly used. Sources typically keep the diacritical marks when they make a crucial difference to pronunciation or help avoid confusion. Often sources are divided and both forms are considered acceptable, as is the case with café .
Originally, certain proclitic words lost their accent before another word and received the grave, and later this was generalized to all words in the orthography. Others—drawing on, for instance, evidence from ancient Greek music —consider that the grave was "linguistically real" and expressed a word-final modification of the acute pitch.
Diaeresis[a] (/ daɪˈɛrəsɪs, - ˈɪər -/ dy-ERR-ə-siss, -EER-) [1] is a name for the two dots diacritical mark ( ̈) as used to indicate the separation of two distinct vowel letters in adjacent syllables when an instance of diaeresis (or hiatus) occurs, so as to distinguish from a digraph or diphthong. It consists of a two dots ...
Hebrew diacritics. Gen. 1:9 And God said, "Let the waters be collected". Letters in black, pointing in red, cantillation in blue[1] Hebrew orthography includes three types of diacritics: Niqqud in Hebrew is the way to indicate vowels, which are omitted in modern orthography, using a set of ancillary glyphs. Since the vowels can be understood ...
Breve. A breve (/ ˈbriːv / ⓘ BREEV, less often / ˈbrɛv / ⓘ 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. It resembles the caron ( ̌, the wedge or háček in Czech, mäkčeň in Slovak) but is ...
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