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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").
Diacritics have been employed in the orthographies of some regional dialects in England. Grave accents and macrons are used in some orthographies of Cumbrian in words such as steàn "stone", seùner "sooner" and pūnd "pound". [19] Diaereses are used in the Lincolnshire dialect, for example stoän "stone", goä "go" and maäke "make". [20]
Do not omit them. Insert them in ink if the typewriter does not have such marks. Generally, do not use diacritical marks with English words." [39] United States Government Printing Office: "Diacritical marks are not used with anglicized words. Foreign words carry the diacritical marks as an essential part of their spelling." [40]
A California Assembly bill would allow the use of diacritical marks like accents in government documents, not allowed since 1986's "English only" law which many say targeted Latinos.
'Question mark' and 'Exclamation mark') Inverted question and exclamation marks ¡ Inverted exclamation mark: Exclamation mark, Interrobang ¿ Inverted question mark: Question mark, Interrobang < Less-than sign: Angle bracket, Chevron, Guillemet Lozenge: Square lozenge ("Pillow") ☞ Manicule: Index, Obelus: º: Masculine ordinal indicator
In the Pahawh Hmong script, a double dot is used as one of several tone marks. The double dot was used in the early Cyrillic alphabet , which was used to write Old Church Slavonic . The modern Cyrillic Belarusian and Russian alphabets include the letter ё ( yo ), although replacing it with the letter е without the diacritic is allowed in Russian.
Umlaut (/ ˈ ʊ m l aʊ t /) is a name for the two dots diacritical mark ( ̈) as used to indicate in writing (as part of the letters ä , ö , and ü ) the result of the historical sound shift due to which former back vowels are now pronounced as front vowels (for example , , and as , , and ).
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