#diacritical_mark__diacriticalmark__diacritic a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
supertype: mark.written_symbol a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation); "his answer was just a punctuation mark"
subtype: accent_mark__accent a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or (in some languages) placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
subtype: stress_mark a mark indicating the stress on a syllable
subtype: acute_accent__acuteaccent__acute__ague a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
subtype: grave_accent__graveaccent__grave a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
subtype: breve a diacritical mark (u-curved) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound
subtype: cedilla a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s
subtype: circumflex a diacritical mark '^' placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
subtype: hacek__wedge a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation
subtype: macron a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound
subtype: 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
subtype: umlaut__dieresis__diaeresis__diaeresi a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound
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