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| acute accent |
a diacritical mark (´), placed over a vowel to indicate length or high pitch, or to indicate primary stress of a syllable. (Cf. grave accent.) |
| breve |
a diacritical mark ( ˇ ), placed over a vowel to indicate that the vowel is short. [1/2 definitions] |
| cedilla |
a diacritical mark (ç), placed under certain letters in French, Portuguese, Turkish, and Russian to indicate a particular pronunciation, as, in French, the sound of "s" for the letter "c". |
| diacritic |
a small distinguishing mark, such as a macron, umlaut, or cedilla, that is added to a letter, esp. to indicate how it is to be pronounced; diacritical mark. |
| grave accent |
a diacritical mark (à), placed over a vowel to indicate length or low pitch, or to indicate secondary stress of a syllable. (Cf. acute accent.) |
| macron |
a diacritical mark ( - ), placed over a vowel to indicate that the vowel is long. |
| self-pronouncing |
having the pronunciation indicated with accent marks, diacritical marks, or the like on the original spelling rather than using phonetic symbols. |
| tilde |
a diacritical mark (ñ), placed over an "n" in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound, or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization. |
| umlaut |
a diacritical mark, such as on this letter "o" (ö), placed over a vowel to indicate umlaut, esp. in German. [1/3 definitions] |
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