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  2. Breve - Wikipedia

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    The breve sign indicates a short vowel, as opposed to the macron ( ̄), which indicates long vowels, in academic transcription. It is often used that way in dictionaries and textbooks of Latin, Ancient Greek, Tuareg and other languages. However, there is a frequent convention of indicating only the long vowels.

  3. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    X with long left leg ꭘ X with long left leg and low right ring ꭙ X with long left leg with serif ꭙ̆: X with long left leg with serif and breve The reference does not cite this letter and diacritic combination. [citation needed] ʏ 𐞲 Small capital Y IPA (near-close near-front rounded vowel); Superscript form is an IPA superscript ...

  4. Table of vowels - Wikipedia

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    name height backness roundness IPA number IPA text IPA image Entity X-SAMPA Sound sample Close front unrounded vowel: close: front: unrounded: 301: i i i Sound sample

  5. List of Greek letters - Wikipedia

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    Archaic letter denoting a long vowel Ῠῠ: Upsilon with breve: Archaic letter denoting a short vowel Χ̇χ̇: Chi with dot above: Arvanitika letter for /xʲ/ [7] Ψ̌ψ̌: Psi with caron: Nonstandard letter for Cypriot Greek [9] and Pontic Greek [10] representing /pʃ/ Ώώ: Omega with acute: High pitch on short vowel or rising pitch on long ...

  6. Latin phonology and orthography - Wikipedia

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    The letters a e i o u y , each of which could represent either a short vowel or a long one. The long vowels were sometimes marked with apices, as in á é ó ú ý , while long /iː/ could be marked with the special character ꟾ . [3] Since the 19th century, long vowels have been marked with macrons, as in ā ē ī ō ū ȳ ; sometimes breves ...

  7. Vowel length - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration.In some languages vowel length is an important phonemic factor, meaning vowel length can change the meaning of the word, for example in Arabic, Czech, Dravidian languages (such as Tamil), some Finno-Ugric languages (such as Finnish and Estonian), Japanese, Kyrgyz, Samoan ...

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  9. Vowel diagram - Wikipedia

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    The IPA vowel chart has the cardinal vowels and is displayed in the form of a trapezium. By definition, no vowel sound can be plotted outside of the IPA trapezium because its four corners represent the extreme points of articulation. The vowel diagrams of most real languages are not so extreme.