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A macron (/ ˈ m æ k r ɒ n, ˈ m eɪ-/ MAK-ron, MAY-) is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar ¯ placed above a letter, usually a vowel.Its name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón) 'long' because it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics.
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 ...
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.
In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration.In some languages vowel length is an important phonemic factor, meaning vowel length can change the meaning of the word, for example in Arabic, Czech, Dravidian languages (such as Tamil), some Finno-Ugric languages (such as Finnish and Estonian), Japanese, Kyrgyz, Samoan ...
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If long vowels are distinguished from short vowels, the long version /æː/ is marked with a macron (ǣ) or, less commonly, an acute (ǽ). In the United States, the issue of the ligature is sidestepped in many cases by use of a simplified spelling with "e", as happened with œ as well; thus, archeology is more commonly used than archaeology in ...
Obsolete IPA near-close near-back rounded vowel alternative symbol used until 1989; ... X with long left leg ... A with macron: Arabic transliteration, Bangolan, ...
Upsilon with macron: Archaic letter denoting a long vowel Ῠῠ: Upsilon with breve: Archaic letter denoting a short vowel Χ̇χ̇: Chi with dot above: Arvanitika letter for /xʲ/ [7] Ψ̌ψ̌: Psi with caron: Nonstandard letter for Cypriot Greek [9] and Pontic Greek [10] representing /pʃ/ Ώώ: Omega with acute: High pitch on short vowel or ...