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Latin letter A with grave. À, à (a-grave) is a letter of the Catalan, Emilian-Romagnol, French, Italian, Maltese, Occitan, Portuguese, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, [1] Vietnamese, and Welsh languages consisting of the letter A of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and a grave accent. À is also used in Pinyin transliteration.
The accent indicates the stressed syllable in words with irregular stress patterns. It can also be used to "break up" a diphthong or to avoid what would otherwise be homonyms, although this does not happen with á, because a is a strong vowel and usually does not become a semivowel in a diphthong. See Diacritic and Acute accent for more details.
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE Encodings decimal hex dec hex Unicode: 195: U+00C3: 227: U+00E3 UTF-8: 195 131: C3 83: 195 163: C3 A3
Small capital I with stroke IPA Oxford University Press dictionary convention English /ɨ/ or /ə/ Ɩ ɩ ᶥ Iota Bissa, Kabye; cf. Greek: Ɩ ɩ: J ȷ Dotless j Old High German: ᴊ: Small capital J FUT [2] K: Kelvin sign Kelvin unit of measure temperature; character decomposition is a capital K ᴋ: Small capital K FUT [2] Ʞ ʞ: Turned K IPA ...
The grave accent marks the height or openness of the vowels e and o, indicating that they are pronounced open: è [ɛ] (as opposed to é [e]); ò [ɔ] (as opposed to ó [o]), in several Romance languages: Catalan uses the accent on three letters (a, e, and o). French orthography uses the accent on three letters (a, e, and u).
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.
The acute accent (/ ə ˈ k j uː t /), ́, is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin and Greek alphabets, precomposed characters are available.
â , in the French language, is used as the letter a with a circumflex accent. It is a remnant of Old French, where the vowel was followed, with some exceptions, by the consonant s . For example, the modern form bâton (English: stick) comes from the Old French baston.