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Transcriptions of Sanskrit typically use a macron over ā, ī, ū, ṝ, and ḹ in order to mark a long vowel (e and o are always long and consequently do not need any macron). [citation needed] In Latin, many of the more recent dictionaries and learning materials use the macron as the modern equivalent of the ancient Roman apex to mark long ...
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 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").
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.
The breathings were written over a vowel or ρ. The rough breathing (Ancient Greek: δασὺ πνεῦμα, romanized: dasù pneûma; Latin spīritus asper)—' ἁ '—indicates a voiceless glottal fricative (/h/) before the vowel in Ancient Greek. In Greek grammar, this is known as aspiration.
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 ...
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
Hook (diacritic) 12 2 Live - has good 2nd table; 4-col (above, below) Hook above Hook above ̉ Hook above: 12 1 Live vietnamese; rm some overlinks done Horn Horn ̛ Horn (diacritic) 12 1 Live Vietnamese (wl); Inverted breve Inverted breve ̑ Inverted breve: 6 1 Live: Macron Macron ̄ Macron (diacritic) 96 3 Live: Ogonek