Latin-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 ().

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

A cedilla ( ; from Spanish '', "small ceda''", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French , ), is a hook or tail () added under certain letters (as a diacritical mark) to indicate that their pronunciation is modified. In Catalan (where it is called ), French, and Portuguese (where it is called a ) it is used only under the letter (to form ), and the entire letter is called, respectively, (i.e. "broken C"), , and (or , colloquially). It is used to mark vowel nasalization in many languages of Sub-Saharan Africa, including Vute from Cameroon.

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 ''''.

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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

The ogonek, also informally referred to as the tail, is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel grapheme in the Latin alphabets of Polish, Kashubian, Övdalian, and Lithuanian; and directly under a vowel in several Native American languages.

diacritic mark of the Latin script

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An interpunct ', also known as an interpoint, middle dot, middot, or centered dot', is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in Classical Latin. (Word-separating spaces did not appear until some time between 600 and 800CE.) It appears in a variety of uses in some modern languages.

decorative use of the diacritic ◌̈ over letters in the names of hard rock or heavy metal bands

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diacritic that consists of two dots placed over a letter

diacritical mark consisting of a line drawn through a grapheme

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diacritic mark to indicate sound shift

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Latin and Middle Vietnamese diacritic similar to an acute accent

usage of a diacritic in the French language