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A macron (/ ˈ m æ k r ɒ n, ˈ m eɪ-/ MAK-ron, MAY-) is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar ¯ placed above a letter, usually a vowel.Its name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón) 'long' because it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics.
Ā, lowercase ā ("A with macron"), is a grapheme, a Latin A with a macron, used in several orthographies.Ā is used to denote a long A.Examples are the Baltic languages (e.g. Latvian), Polynesian languages, including Māori and Moriori, some romanizations of Japanese, Persian, Pashto, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (which represents a long A sound) and Arabic, and some Latin texts (especially for ...
In some areas, such as the Waikato, use of a macron is replaced by a double vowel instead (eg. Maaori instead of Māori), typically in areas where local Māori dialects prefer usage of a double vowel. [18] A diaeresis has sometimes been used (Mäori) in place of a macron where the technical capacity to apply a macron diacritic is limited. [19]
A macron is a diacritic ¯ placed over a vowel originally to indicate that the vowel is long. When editing a Wikipedia page, macron characters appear below the edit box, and can be inserted into the edit box by clicking the appropriate character (in JavaScript-enabled browsers). A macron can also be input directly from the keyboard.
Macron (diacritic), a straight bar placed over a letter Macron below , a macron placed below a letter Overline , a horizontal line over two or more letters, sometimes mistakenly called a macron
Also, if for a noun the major dictionaries (Webster's; OED;...) concur that it is always written with a diacritic, the Wikipedia content page is always at the version with diacritic (e.g. "cliché"). In more ambiguous cases, a standard letter (a-z/A-Z) with a diacritic is acceptable in an article title if all of the following conditions are met:
Unicode maps the overline-like character from ISO/IEC 8859-1 and code page 850 to the U+00AF ¯ MACRON symbol mentioned above. In a reversal of its official name (and compatibility decomposition), it is much wider than an actual macron diacritic over most letters, and actually wider than U+203E ‾ OVERLINE in most fonts.
Diacritic marks should be avoided, being trying for the eyes and troublesome to write. [8] The principles would govern all future development of the alphabet, with the exception of #5 and in some cases #2, [9] until they were revised drastically in 1989. [10] #6 has also been loosened, as diacritics have been admitted for limited purposes. [11]