Diacritic Meaning



'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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Typing Diacritical Marks

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accent, accent markMeaning
a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
breve
a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound
cedilla

Diacritical Meaning In Urdu

a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s
circumflexDiacritical meaning
a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
hacek, wedge
a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
macron
a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound
tilde
a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization
diaeresis, dieresis, umlaut
a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound
stress mark
acute, acute accent, agueMeaning
a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

Diacritics Meaning In Bengali

grave, grave accent
a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
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mark