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  2. Circumflex - Wikipedia

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    It lengthens a stressed vowel (a, e, i, o, u, w, y), and is used particularly to differentiate between homographs; e.g. tan and tân, ffon and ffôn, gem and gêm, cyn and cŷn, or gwn and gŵn. However the circumflex is only required on elongated vowels if the same word exists without the circumflex - "nos" (night), for example, has an ...

  3. Circumflex in French - Wikipedia

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    Sylvius used the circumflex to indicate so-called "false diphthongs".Early modern French as spoken in Sylvius' time had coalesced all its true diphthongs into phonetic monophthongs; that is, a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation.

  4. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    the tilde (Señor, João), in Spanish indicating palatalised n, and Portuguese indicating nasal a and o (although in Spanish and most source languages, the tilde is not considered a diacritic over the letter n but rather as an integral part of the distinct letter ñ; in Portuguese the sound is represented by "nh")

  5. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Tilde (symbol) Tilde (diacritic) Wave dash Double tilde ̃: Tilde (diacritic) Circumflex, Grave: Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic ™ Trademark symbol: Registered trade mark _ Underscore | Vertical bar: also known as a 'pipe' / Virgule: Slash: Virgule (disambiguation)

  6. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    O with tilde: Estonian, Frafra Portuguese, Vietnamese, Võro Õ̍ õ̍: O with tilde and vertical line: Õ̎ õ̎: O with tilde and double vertical line: Õ̀ õ̀: O with tilde and grave: Ṍ ṍ: O with tilde and acute: Lao transliteration Õ̂ õ̂: O with tilde and circumflex: Õ̌ õ̌: O with tilde and caron: Ṏ ṏ: O with tilde and ...

  7. Acute accent - Wikipedia

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    The acute marks the quality of the vowels é [e] (as opposed to è [ɛ]), and ó [o] (as opposed to ò [ɔ]). French. The acute is used on é. It is known as accent aigu, in contrast to the accent grave which is the accent sloped the other way. It distinguishes é [e] from è [ɛ], ê [ɛ], and e [ə]. Unlike in other Romance languages, the ...

  8. Combining Diacritical Marks - Wikipedia

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    Combining Diacritical Marks is a Unicode block containing the most common combining characters.It also contains the character "Combining Grapheme Joiner", which prevents canonical reordering of combining characters, and despite the name, actually separates characters that would otherwise be considered a single grapheme in a given context.

  9. Grave accent - Wikipedia

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    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).