Greek-script diacritics

The comma '''''' is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages. Some typefaces render it as a small line, slightly curved or straight, but inclined from the vertical; others give it the appearance of a miniature filled-in figure placed on the baseline. In many typefaces it is the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark .

The tilde (, also ) is a grapheme or with a number of uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish , which, in turn, came from the Latin , meaning 'title' or 'superscription'. Its primary use is as a diacritic in combination with a base letter. Its freestanding form is used in modern texts mainly to indicate approximation.

The circumflex () is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is also used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from "bent around"a translation of the ().

diacritic

combining grave accent (U+0300), backtick or backquote

diacritic (U+0308) of two dots written horizontalement above a base letter, used to denote the separation of two consecutive vowels, or to replace the 2nd letter of a digraph modifying the pronunciation of the base letter

A caron ( ) or háček ( , plural háčeks or háčky), is a diacritic mark () placed over certain letters in the orthography of some languages, to indicate a change of the related letter's pronunciation. Typographers tend to use the term caron, while linguists prefer the Czech word ''''.

diacritical mark

alt=Some typefaces differentiate Cyrillic style (top) and Latin style breve (bottom)|thumb|PT Fonts|Some typefaces differentiate Cyrillic style (top) and Latin style breve (bottom)|class=skin-invert-image A breve ( , less often , neuter form of the Latin "short, brief") is the diacritic mark , shaped like the bottom half of a circle. As used in Ancient Greek, it is also called '''''', . It resembles the caron (, the wedge or in Czech, in Slovak) but is rounded, in contrast to the angular tip of the caron. In many forms of Latin, is used for a shorter, softer variant of a vowel, such as "Ĭ", wh

diacritical mark used in polytonic orthography

diacritical marks used in polytonic Greek, Coptic, and old Cyrillic orthographies

orthographical conventions of Greek, modern and historical

diacritic mark in the Greek alphabet

diacritic that consists of two dots placed over a letter

diacritical mark

diacritic mark to indicate sound shift