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Diacritic

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"). The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in an attributive sense, whereas…

Types, Diacritics specific to non-Latin alphabets & Diacritics that do not produce new letters

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Types

Pitch accentsPolytonic transcriptionGreekLatinApex
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Diacritics specific to non-Latin alphabets

HamzaGlottal stopAlifShaddaInflection
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Diacritics that do not produce new letters

EnglishThe New YorkerMaléRenéeZoë
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Non-alphabetic scripts

AbjadsArabicVowelsDevanagariChandrabindu
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Diacritics specific to non-Latin alphabets

Non-alphabetic scripts

Alphabetization or collation

Generation with computers

Languages with letters containing diacritics

Diacritics that do not produce new letters

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Diacritic

Nodes325
Edges324
Triples230
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.006154
Components1

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Diacritic

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related to Other languages · 70
Diacritic → Acutes, Afrikaans, Arabic, As, Aymara, Carolina Klüft, Carons, Catalan, Christmas, Contrary, Cornish, Despite, Diacritics, Dit, Due, Dutch, English, Estonian, Everyday, Faroese
related to Transliteration · 19
Diacritic → Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Example, Examples, Hindi, IAST, In Hanyu Pinyin, Kunrei-shiki, Mandarin Chinese, Nihon-shiki, Roman, Romanized Japanese, Rōmaji, Sanskrit, Several, The, The Hepburn, This
related to Alphabetization or collation · 16
Diacritic → Also, Austrian, Danish, Different, Finnish, For, French, German, However, Languages, Norwegian, Other, Portuguese, Swedish, The Scandinavian, Usually
related to Non-alphabetic scripts · 16
Diacritic → Although, Another, Arabic, Devanagari, Emoticons, Finals, Hebrew, In, Japanese, Medials, Non-pure, Some, Syllabic, Syllabics, The Japanese, Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
related to Generation with computers · 15
Diacritic → American, ASCII, English, European, For, Information Interchange, It, Latin, Modern, The American Standard Code, The ISO/IEC, Unfortunately, Unicode, Western European, With
related to English · 13
Diacritic → English, European, Exceptions, Fr, French, Grk, In, Instead, Latin, Loanwords, Modern English, Spanish, The New Yorker
related to External links · 11
Diacritic → Adobe, Archived, Context, Diacritics, KDE, Linux, Macintosh PDF, Markus LångEntering International Characters, Standard Character Set, Wayback MachineDiacritics ProjectUnicodeOrthographic, WellsNotes
related to Types · 10
Diacritic → ALA-LC, Among, Catalan, Greek, International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA, Latin, Pe, Rheinische Dokumenta, Vietnamese
related to Orthographic · 6
Diacritic → HAKṢHMALAWARAYAṀ, It, Possibly, Ranjana, Tibetan, Unicode
see also · 6
Diacritic → IEC, Latin, Latin-alphabet European, Latin-script, Letters, UnicodeList

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letters used diacritics acute vowels letter uses alphabet also vowel indicate diaeresis grave circumflex words long use english accent two

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Diacriticis anoun0.90text
Diacriticis aentire word0.90text
within the letter or between two letters.The main use of diacritics in Latin script is to change the sound-values of the letters to which they are addedinstance ofDiacritics may appear above or below a letter or in some other position0.80text
doggèdinstance ofand the help sometimes provided in the pronunciation of some words0.80text
learnèdinstance ofand the help sometimes provided in the pronunciation of some words0.80text
blessèdinstance ofand the help sometimes provided in the pronunciation of some words0.80text
and especially words pronounced differently than normal in poetryinstance ofand the help sometimes provided in the pronunciation of some words0.80text
theinstance ofMedials0.80text
áinstance ofúŋ.Malay uses some diacritics0.80text
āinstance ofúŋ.Malay uses some diacritics0.80text
çinstance ofúŋ.Malay uses some diacritics0.80text
íinstance ofúŋ.Malay uses some diacritics0.80text

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