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Diacritical marks

accent
A diacritical mark or diacritic, sometimes called an accent mark, is a mark added to a letter to alter a words pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. ...

acute accent ( ˊ )
double acute accent ( ˝ )
grave accent ( ˋ )

breve ( ˘ )
caron / háček ( ˇ )
cedilla ( ¸ )
circumflex ( ˆ )
diaeresis ( ¨ )
dot ( · )
The acute accent ( Â´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin script. ... The double acute accent ( ˝ ) is a diacritic mark of the latin script used primarily in written Hungarian. ... The grave accent ( ` ) is a diacritic mark used in written Greek until 1982 (polytonic orthography), French, Catalan, Welsh, Italian, Vietnamese, Scottish Gaelic, Norwegian, Portuguese, and other languages. ... This article is about the breve breve in music, see double whole note. ... Caron may refer to multiple things. ... Caron may refer to multiple things. ... A cedilla is a hook (¸) added under certain consonant letters as a diacritic mark to modify their pronunciation. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... In linguistics, a diaeresis or dieresis (AE) (from Greek διαιρεῖν (diaerein), to divide) is the modification of a syllable by distinctly pronouncing one of its vowels. ... When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot is usually reserved for the middle dot ·, or to the glyphs combining dot above ̇ and combining dot below ̣ which may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in use in Eastern European languages and Vietnamese. ...

anunaasika ( ˙ )
anusvaara (  ̣ )

hook / dấu hỏi (  ̉ )
macron ( ˉ )
ogonek ( ˛ )
ring / kroužek ( ˚ )
spiritus asper ( ʽ )
spiritus lenis (  ʼ )
umlaut ( ¨ )
Anunaasika is a dot on top of a breve above a letter ( मँ ), used as a diacritic in Sanskrit written in devanagari script to represent vowel nasalization. ... Anusvaara (or anusvaaram) appears in the alphabet of Indian languages like Sanskrit which use the Devanagari script, and in the Dravidian languages. ... For other meanings of hook, see hook (disambiguation). ... For other meanings of hook, see hook (disambiguation). ... A macron (from Gr. ... For the Russian magazine, see Ogonyok Ogonek (Polish for little tail; In Lithuanian it is nosinÄ— which literally means nasal) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in Polish (letters Ä…, Ä™), Lithuanian Ä…, Ä™, į, ų), Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua and Tutchone. ... In punctuation, the term ring is usually reserved for the ring above diacritic mark ˚ (looks similar to °). The ring may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets. ... In punctuation, the term ring is usually reserved for the ring above diacritic mark ˚ (looks similar to °). The ring may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets. ... The spiritus asper (rough breathing) or dasy pneuma (Greek: dasu, δασύ) is a diacritical mark used in Greek. ... The spiritus lenis (soft breathing) or psilon pneuma (Greek: psilón, ψιλόν) is a diacritical mark used in Ancient Greek. ... Ä ä Ö ö Ü ü The term umlaut is used for two closely related notions: a special kind of vowel modification and a particular diacritic mark. ...

Marks sometimes used as diacritics

apostrophe ( )
bar ( | )
colon ( : )
comma ( , )
hyphen ( ˗ )
tilde ( ˜ )
titlo (  ҃ )
An apostrophe ( ’ ) is a punctuation and sometimes diacritic mark in languages written in the Latin alphabet. ... A colon is a punctuation mark, with one dot above another, e. ... A comma ( , ) is a punctuation mark. ... A hyphen ( -, or ‐ ) is a punctuation mark. ... The tilde (~) is a grapheme which has several uses, described below. ... Titlo is an extended diacritic symbol used in old Cyrillic manuscripts, e. ...

The bar or stroke can be a diacritic mark, when used with some letters in the Latin or Cyrillic alphabets. A diacritical mark or diacritic, sometimes called an accent mark, is a mark added to a letter to alter a words pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. ... A grapheme designates the atomic unit in written language. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ...


When characters have a stroke variant for one case and another kind of variations for the other case, both variants are shown. Letters used for only for phonetic transcription are lowercase only.


The characters here comprise all barred/stroked Latin or Cyrillic letter characters from Unicode 4.0. In computing, Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. ...


An incomplete list of characters with a bar is below. A shaded box indicates that that case of the letter does not exist. A box spanning both columns indicates that the letter is caseless. (Not all characters with a bar may display in all browsers, depending on browser version, operating system and available fonts. In each cell, the first character is in your browser's default font, the second in a Unicode-enabled font, if installed on your computer.) Web browser shortcuts on an Apple computer A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with HTML documents hosted by web servers or held in a file system. ... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of character designs. ...

Characters with Bars
Uppercase Lowercase Description Usage
  ƀ ƀ Latin letter b with stroke Old Saxon and Americanist linguistic, for a sound analogous to IPA beta
  Latin small capital letter barred B Uralic phonetic alphabet
  Modifier letter capital barred B Uralic phonetic alphabet
Note: This has lowercase properties in Unicode despite its name.
Đ Đ đ đ Latin letter d with stroke Croatian and Serbian; Vietnamese; Sami; some transliteration traditions (see Ð)
Ð Ð ð ð Latin letter eth (or or edh) Old English; Middle English; medieval Scandinavian languages; modern Icelandic and linguistics
  Latin letter small capital eth Uralic phonetic alphabet
Ɖ Ɖ ɖ ɖ Latin capital letter African D; Latin small letter d with tail Pan-Nigerian alphabet; IPA
Ǥ Ǥ ǥ ǥ Latin letter g with stroke Skolt Sami; some transliteration traditions
Ħ Ħ ħ ħ Latin letter h with stroke Maltese; IPA, for a pharyngalized h
Ɨ Ɨ ɪ ɪ Latin letter capital i with stroke; Latin letter small capital i Some African alphabets, for the i in bit; IPA
Note: The apparent mismatch of upper and lowercase is correct.
  ɨ ɨ Latin letter i with stroke, barred-i IPA, for a high central unrounded vowel
Ł Ł ł ł Latin letter L with stroke; stroked-l; barred-l Polish and Lithuanian alphabets, for a W sound; Venetian language for a y or a e sonds. Americanist linguistics voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
  Latin letter small capital L with stroke Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
  ƚ ƚ Latin small letter l with bar, barred-l Americanist linguistics, for a velarized l sound
  ƛ ƛ Latin small letter lambda with stroke, barred lambda, lamda bar Americanist linguistics, for a voiceless alveolar lateral affricate
Ø Ø ø ø Latin letter o with stroke Norwegian and Danish, where other Germanic languages would use ö
Ɵ Ɵ ɵ ɵ Latin letter o with middle tilde, barred o Some African alphabets
Note: This may be a tilde diacritic, instead.
  Latin letter sideways o with stroke Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
Ŧ Ŧ ŧ ŧ Latin letter t with stroke Sami and some transliteration traditions, for a sound like th in English thin
  ʉ ʉ Latin small letter u with bar IPA, for a high central rounded vowel
Ƶ Ƶ ƶ ƶ Latin small letter z with stroke, barred z Some Pan-Turkish languages
ǂ ǂ Latin letter alveolar click Khoisan
  ƻ ƻ Latin small letter two with stroke IPA, for [dz] affricate (deprecated)
Ғ Ғ ғ ғ Cyrillic letter ghe with stroke, barred ghe Azerbaijani; some other Caucasus languages
Ө Ө ө ө Cyrillic letter barred o
Ӫ Ӫ ӫ ӫ Cyrillic letter barred o with diaeresis
Ұ Ұ ұ ұ Cyrillic letter straight u with stroke Azerbaijani; Bashkir; some other Caucasus languages

Majuscules or capital letters (in the Roman alphabet: A, B, C, ...) are one type of case in a writing system. ... Minuscule, or lower case, is the smaller form (case) of letters (in the Roman alphabet: a, b, c, ...). Originally alphabets were written entirely in majuscule (capital) letters which were spaced between well-defined upper and lower bounds. ... Old Saxon, also known as Old Low German, is a Germanic language. ... Americanist phonetic notation (also Americanist Phonetic Alphabet, American Phonetic Alphabet, sometimes abbreviated APA) is a system of phonetic notation originally developed by European and Euro-American anthropologists and language scientists (former Neo-grammarians) for the phonetic and phonemic transcription of Native American and European languages. ... Broadly conceived, linguistics is the study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet. ... Beta (upper case Î’, lower case β) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. ... Geographical distribution of Samoyedic, Finnic, Ugric and Yukaghir languages The Uralic languages form a language family of about 30 languages spoken by approximately 20 million people. ... Phonetic (pho-NET-ic) is a nationwide voicemail-to-text messaging service available for most digital mobile phones in which a subscriber is provided a custom voice mailbox for the purpose of receiving all incoming voice messages as actual transcribed text for reading via short messaging (also known as SMS... Ð, Unicode codepoint 208, U+00D0 is: Ð, a letter used in Old English and present_day Icelandic and Faroese. ... The Serbian language is one of the standard versions of the Central–South Slavic diasystem, formerly (and still frequently) called Serbo-Croatian and based on the Å tokavian dialect. ... Sami is a general name for a group of the Uralic languages spoken in parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, in Northern Europe. ... Transliteration in a narrow sense is a mapping from one system of writing into another. ... Ð (capital Ð, lower-case ð) (or eth, eð or edh, Faroese: edd) is a letter used in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and present-day Icelandic and Faroese. ... Ð (capital Ð, lower-case ð) (or eth, eð or edh, Faroese: edd) is a letter used in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and present-day Icelandic and Faroese. ... Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ... Middle English is the name given by historical philologists to the diverse forms of the English language spoken in England from around the 12th to the 15th centuries— from after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror in 1066 to the mid to late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard... The North Germanic languages (also Scandinavian languages or Nordic languages) is a branch of the Germanic languages spoken in Scandinavia, parts of Finland and on the Faroe Islands and Iceland. ... Skolt Sami (Sää´mǩiõll) is a Finno-Ugric, Sami language spoken in Finland and nearby parts of Russia. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-07-18, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Lithuanian is the official language of Lithuania, spoken by about 4 million native Lithuanians. ... Venetian is a Romance language spoken by over two million people in and around Venice. ... Velarization is a secondary articulation of consonants by which the back of the tongue is raised toward the velum during the articulation of the consonant. ... Lambda (upper case Λ, lower case λ) is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet. ... The Germanic languages form one of the branches of the Indo-European (IE) language family. ... The tilde (~) is a grapheme which has several uses, described below. ... Sami is a general name for a group of Finno-Ugric languages spoken in parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, in Northern Europe. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Turkish (Türkçe), also known as Osmanlı, is a Turkic language spoken natively in Cyprus, Bulgaria, and by some 56 million speakers in Turkey, as well as by several million immigrants in the European Union. ... Alveolars are consonants articulated with the tip of the tongue against the alveolar ridge, the internal side of the upper gums (known as the alveoles of the upper teeth). ... Click may refer to: Click consonant The pressing and subsequent releasing of a button on a computer pointing device, such as a mouse or trackball, without (significantly) moving the cursor. ... Map showing the distribution of the Khoi-San languages. ... An affricate is a consonant that begins like a stop (most often an alveovelar, such as [t] or [d]) and that doesnt have a release of its own, but opens directly into a fricative (or, in one language, into a trill). ... In linguistics, a diaeresis or dieresis (AE) (from Greek διαιρεῖν (diaerein), to divide) is the modification of a syllable by distinctly pronouncing one of its vowels. ... The Bashkir language is a Turkic language, a member of the Kyphchak group of languages. ...

External links

  • Diacritics Project - All you need to design a font with correct accents

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