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Also known as ogonek, caudata, combining “ogonek”, combining ogonek

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.

Key facts

Diacritic.char
◌̨
Diacritic.name
Ogonek
Diacritic.variant1
◌᷎
Diacritic.see_also
, spacing

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
diacritic
Image
Unicode 0x0328.svg
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Unicode code point
0328
Unicode character
̨
Unicode character name
COMBINING OGONEK
HTML entity
̨
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Encyclopedic overview

22 sections
Contents
  • Use
  • Example in Polish
  • Example in Cayuga
  • Example in Chickasaw
  • Example in Dogrib
  • Example in Lithuanian
  • Example in Elfdalian
  • Values
  • Nasalization
  • Length
  • Lowered articulation
  • Similar diacritics
  • E caudata and o caudata
  • Cedilla and comma
  • Superscript ogonek
  • Letters with ogonek
  • Typographical notes
  • Encoding
  • LaTeX2e
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

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.

An ogonek can also be attached to the bottom of a vowel in Old Norse or Old Icelandic to show length or vowel affection. For example, in Old Norse, ǫ represents the Old Norwegian vowel , which in Old Icelandic merges with ø ‹ö› and in modern Scandinavian languages is represented by the letter å.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “◌̨” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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