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The diaeresis diacritic indicates that two adjoining letters that would normally form a digraph and be pronounced as one sound, are instead to be read as separate vowels in two syllables. For example, in the spelling "coöperate", the diaeresis reminds the reader that the word has four syllables co-op-er-ate , not three, *coop-er-ate .
Diaeresis (linguistics), or hiatus, the separation of adjacent vowels into syllables, not separated by a consonant or pause and not merged into a diphthong; Diaeresis (diacritic), a diacritic consisting of two side-by-side dots that marks disyllabicity; Diaeresis (computing), the name used by the Unicode Consortium for the "two-dots above ...
As the "diaeresis" diacritic, it is used to mark the separation of two distinct vowels in adjacent syllables when an instance of diaeresis (or hiatus) occurs, so as to distinguish from a digraph or diphthong. For example, in the obsolete spelling "coöperate", the diaeresis reminded the reader that the word has four syllables co-op-er-ate, not ...
In phonology, hiatus (/ h aɪ ˈ eɪ t ə s / hy-AY-təs) or diaeresis (/ d aɪ ˈ ɛr ə s ɪ s,-ˈ ɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-siss, - EER-; [1] also spelled dieresis or diæresis) describes the occurrence of two separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables with no intervening consonant.
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A with diaeresis and circumflex: Hän, Middle Low German: Ä̃ ä̃: A with diaeresis and tilde: Arikapú, Nadëb: Ǟ ǟ: A with diaeresis and macron: Livonian, Middle High German, Old Sámi orthography, Tutchone Ǟ̆ ǟ̆: A with diaeresis, macron and breve: Sogdian transliteration Ä̆ ä̆: A with diaeresis and breve: Caucasian dialectology ...
The only diacritic native to Modern English is the two dots (representing a vowel hiatus): its usage has tended to fall off except in certain publications and particular cases. [3] [a] Proper nouns are not generally counted as English terms except when accepted into the language as an eponym – such as Geiger–Müller tube.
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