diacritics
Marks on letters
Diacritics are marks added to letters to indicate pronunciation, stress, or meaning distinctions.
English uses few—the occasional accent mark in borrowed words like *café* or *naïve*, the umlaut in *coöperate*.
Other languages depend on them heavily: French cédilles, German umlauts, Spanish tildes.
The editor removed the diacritics from the foreign names.
Double-dot diacritical mark
- cedillaMark softening consonants
- tildeWavy diacritical mark
- circumflexPeaked accent mark
- acuteIntensely severe or perceptive
grave · breve · diaeresis · tittle · horn · ring · hook · dot
Regional speech pattern
- phoneticsStudy of speech sounds
- vowelUnobstructed speech sound
- toneQuality of sound
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
nasalization · syllable · phoneme · articulation · prosody · length · aspiration · pitch
Correct letter sequence
- alphabetLanguage's letter system
- scriptWritten words for performance
- transliterationCross-script phonetic spelling
- romanizationScript-to-alphabet conversion process
writing system · grapheme · letter · character · glyph · ligature · encoding · ASCII
Of or from Paris's nation
- GermanCentral European language
- SpanishLanguage of Iberia
- VietnameseOf Southeast Asian nation
- PolishSmooth to a shine
Czech · Turkish · Portuguese · Scandinavian · Yoruba · Navajo · Hawaiian · Māori
Character style set
- typefaceLettering style design
- renderingInterpretive depiction or performance
- kerningLetter-pair spacing adjustment
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
readability · display · baseline · precomposed · decomposed · OpenType · text layout · typesetting
umlaut
Double-dot diacritical mark
- cedillaMark softening consonants
- tildeWavy diacritical mark
- circumflexPeaked accent mark
acute · grave · breve · diaeresis · tittle · horn · ring · hook · dot · stroke
accent
Regional speech pattern
stress · nasalization · syllable · phoneme · articulation · prosody · length · aspiration · pitch · tonal
spelling
Correct letter sequence
- alphabetLanguage's letter system
- scriptWritten words for performance
- transliterationCross-script phonetic spelling
romanization · writing system · grapheme · letter · character · glyph · ligature · encoding · ASCII · transcription
French
Of or from Paris's nation
- GermanCentral European language
- SpanishLanguage of Iberia
- VietnameseOf Southeast Asian nation
Polish · Czech · Turkish · Portuguese · Scandinavian · Yoruba · Navajo · Hawaiian · Māori · Croatian
font
Character style set
- typefaceLettering style design
- renderingInterpretive depiction or performance
- kerningLetter-pair spacing adjustment
composition · readability · display · baseline · precomposed · decomposed · OpenType · text layout · typesetting · character set
- lettersa, d, e, h, q
- punctuationperiod, comma, colon, apostrophe, semicolon
- writing rulespunctuation, capitalization, spelling, apostrophes, commas
- written symbolsletters, alphabets, punctuation, commas, periods
- Ancient GreekGreek alphabet, Greek vocabulary, ancient Greek, Homer, Plato
- Hungariangoulash, paprika, Budapest, Magyar, puszta
diacriticsletters
Alphabetic characters or mail
graphemes · alphabet · consonants · vowels · plain text
- diacritical markSymbol modifying letter pronunciation