WebA macron (/ ˈ m æ k r ɒ n, ˈ m eɪ-/) is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar (¯) placed above a letter, usually a vowel.Its name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón) "long", since it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics.It now more often marks a long vowel.In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the macron is used to …

WebScience. Macron, a genus of sea snails; Macron (physics), high-energy particle Typography. Macron (diacritic), a straight bar placed over a letter Macron below, a macron placed below a letter; Overline, a horizontal line over two or more letters, sometimes mistakenly called a macron; Other. Macron (sportswear), an Italian …

WebAn overline, overscore, or overbar, is a typographical feature of a horizontal line drawn immediately above the text. In old mathematical notation, an overline was called a vinculum, a notation for grouping symbols which is expressed in modern notation by parentheses, though it persists for symbols under a radical sign.The original use in …

WebThe dakuten (Japanese: 濁点, Japanese pronunciation: [dakɯ̥teꜜɴ] or [dakɯ̥teɴ], lit. "voicing mark"), colloquially ten-ten (点々, "dots"), is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing).

WebA 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 διακριτικός (diakritikós, "distinguishing"), from διακρίνω (diakrī́nō, "to distinguish").The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in an attributive sense, whereas diacritical is only ...

WebThe most common diacritic to be simplified is the circumflex, which often appears more like a macron or acute accent (e.g. ḡ or ǵ instead of ĝ). Names of the letters of the alphabet. Zamenhof simply tacked an -o onto each consonant to create the name of the letter, with the vowels representing themselves: a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, etc. The ...

WebLatin phonology continually evolved over the centuries, making it difficult for speakers in one era to know how Latin was spoken before then. A given phoneme may be represented by different letters in different periods. This article deals primarily with modern scholarship's best reconstruction of Classical Latin's phonemes and the pronunciation and spelling …

WebNumber digits in Enclosed Alphanumerics: ???? ⒈ ⒉ ⒊ ⒋ ⒌ ⒍ ⒎ ⒏ ⒐; In Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, in addition to the middle dot as a letter, centred dot diacritic, and dot above diacritic, there also is a two-dot diacritic in the Naskapi language representing /_w_V/ which depending on the placement on the specific Syllabic letter may resemble a colon …

WebThe diaeresis (/ d aɪ ˈ ɛr ə s ɪ s,-ˈ ɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-sis, -⁠ EER-; is a diacritical mark used to indicate the separation of two distinct vowels in adjacent syllables when an instance of diaeresis (or hiatus) occurs, so as to distinguish from a digraph or diphthong.. It consists of two dots ¨ placed over a letter, generally a vowel; when that letter is an i , the diacritic …

WebGerman orthography is the orthography used in writing the German language, which is largely phonemic.However, it shows many instances of spellings that are historic or analogous to other spellings rather than phonemic. The pronunciation of almost every word can be derived from its spelling once the spelling rules are known, but the opposite is not …