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Ğ
Ğ (g with breve; minuscule: ğ) is a Latin letter found in the Turkish and Azerbaijani alphabets as well as the Latin alphabets of Zazaki, Laz, Crimean Tatar, Tatar, and Kazakh. It traditionally represented the voiced velar fricative or the voiced uvular fricative . However, in Turkish, the phoneme has in most cases been reduced to a silent letter, serving as a vowel-lengthener. But for Crimean Tatar spelling in Romania it represents the voiced palato-alveolar affricate .
Ă
thumb|Latin A-breve. Ă (upper case) or ă (lower case), usually referred to in English as A-breve, is a letter used in standard Romanian and Vietnamese orthographies. In Romanian, it is used to represent the mid-central unrounded vowel, while in Vietnamese it represents the short a sound. It is the second letter of the Romanian, Vietnamese, and the pre-1972 Malaysian alphabets, after A.
Ŭ
Ŭ or ŭ is a letter in the Belarusian Latin alphabet used since 1840/1845, based on u. It is also used in the Esperanto alphabet, publicly presented in 1887, and formerly in the Romanian alphabet. The accent mark (diacritic) is known as a breve.
Ӑ
Cyrillic letter
Ӂ
Cyrillic letter
breve
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
Ӗ
Cyrillic letter
О̆
Cyrillic letter
Ю̆
Cyrillic letter
Ы̆
Cyrillic letter
Ge with inverted breve
Cyrillic letter
thumb|H with breve below in Doulos SIL Ḫ, ḫ (h with breve below) is a Latin letter used to transliterate: Arabic '' () Aramaic Ḫēt (𐡄) and (ח) Akkadian Hittite laryngeal h, see Hittite cuneiform Egyptian x, see Egyptian hieroglyphs Geʽez letter ኀ (Ḫarm'') Khalaj Latin alphabet Sumerian /x/
Д̆
Cyrillic letter
Ө̆
Cyrillic letter