diacritic
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A diacritic is a small mark added above, below, or through a letter to change how it's pronounced or to distinguish it from other letters. These marks are used in many languages around the world—for example, the accent over the "e" in "café" or the tilde over the "n" in "señor"—and they're important for spelling words correctly and pronouncing them the way native speakers do.
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- Types
- Diacritics specific to non-Latin alphabets
- Arabic
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Korean
- Sanskrit and Indic
- Syriac
- Non-alphabetic scripts
- Alphabetization or collation
- Generation with computers
- Languages with letters containing diacritics
- Latin script
- Baltic
- Celtic
- Finno-Ugric
- Germanic
- Romance
- Slavic
- Turkic
- Other
- Cyrillic letters
- Diacritics that do not produce new letters
- English
- Other languages
- Transliteration
- Limits
- Orthographic
- Unorthographic/ornamental
- List of diacritics in Unicode {{anchor|1=Diactritics in Unicode}}
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|class=skin-invert-image|Latin letter A with multiple diacritics
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 (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in an attributive sense, whereas diacritical is only an adjective. Some diacritics, such as the acute , grave , and circumflex (all shown above an 'o'), are often called accents. Diacritics may appear above or below a letter or in some other position such as within the letter or between two letters.