'Eber' has its roots with 'avar' meaning 'to cross over'. Bible refers to Hebrew as Yehudith since Yehuda or Judah was the surviving kingdom at the time. Hebrew also finds reference in Isaiah 19:18 as Language of Canaan. Yiddish was known as loshn-ashkenaz or language of Ashkenaz and taytsh or the modern Middle High German. Common usage finds. Diacritic symbols are crucial to identify how words are pronounced and to disambiguate their meanings. Arabic (along with some other languages) uses diacritic symbols to specify short vowels. In wiriting, those symbols are usually omitted, since the native speakers can usually guess from the context the meaning and pronunciation.
1690s, 'serving to distinguish,' especially of a mark or sign added to a letter to distinguish it from another of similar form or indicate a peculiar accent, tone, or stress, from Latinized form of Greek diakritikos 'that separates or distinguishes,' from diakrinein 'to separate one from another,' from dia 'between' (see dia-) + krinein 'to separate, decide, judge' (from PIE root *krei- 'to sieve,' thus 'discriminate, distinguish'). As a noun, 'a diacritical mark,' from 1866. Related: Diacritical.
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