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  2. 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 ...

  3. Ñ - Wikipedia

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    Historically, ñ arose as a ligature of nn ; the tilde was shorthand for the second n , written over the first; [2] compare umlaut, of analogous origin. It is a letter in the Spanish alphabet that is used for many words—for example, the Spanish word año "year" ( anno in Old Spanish ) derived from Latin : annus .

  4. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    Open E with tilde and grave: Ɛ̃́ ɛ̃́: Open E with tilde and acute: Ɛ̃̂ ɛ̃̂: Open E with tilde and circumflex: Ɛ̃̌ ɛ̃̌: Open E with tilde and caron: Ɛ̃̍ ɛ̃̍: Open E with tilde and vertical line: Ɛ̃̎ ɛ̃̎: Open E with tilde and double vertical line: Ɛ̄ ɛ̄: Open E with macron: Ɛ̆ ɛ̆: Open E with breve: Ɛ̇ ...

  5. É - Wikipedia

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    É is a variant of E carrying an acute accent; it represents a stressed /e/ sound in Kurdish. It is mainly used to mark stress, especially when it is the final letter of a word. In Kurdish dictionaries, it may be used to distinguish between words with different meanings or pronunciations, as with péş ("face") and pes ("dust"), where stress ...

  6. Ë - Wikipedia

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    Ë is the 8th letter of the Albanian alphabet and represents the vowel /ə/, like the pronunciation of the a in "ago". It is the fourth most commonly used letter of the language, comprising 7.74 percent of all writings. [2]

  7. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The four other explicitly approved rising and falling diacritic combinations are high/mid rising [e᷄], low rising [e᷅], high falling [e᷇], and low/mid falling [e᷆]. [ note 31 ] The Chao tone letters, on the other hand, may be combined in any pattern, and are therefore used for more complex contours and finer distinctions than the ...

  8. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

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    The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language.. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects.

  9. Latin Extended Additional - Wikipedia

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    Latin Capital Letter O with tilde and acute U+1E4D ṍ Latin Small Letter O with tilde and acute U+1E4E Ṏ Latin Capital Letter O with tilde and diaeresis U+1E4F ṏ Latin Small Letter O with tilde and diaeresis U+1E50 Ṑ Latin Capital Letter O with macron and grave U+1E51 ṑ Latin Small Letter O with macron and grave U+1E52 Ṓ