It is alphabetic, with a letter or diacritic for every phonemic ( distinctive ) hand shape, orientation, motion, and position, though it lacks any representation of facial expression, and is better suited for individual words than for extended passages of text.

Unaspirated consonants are not normally marked explicitly, but there is a diacritic for non-aspiration in the Extensions to the IPA, the superscript equal sign, ⟨⟩.

:* Vietnamese uses the horn diacritic for the letters ơ and ư ; the circumflex for the letters â, ê, and ô ; the breve for the letter ă ; and a bar through the letter đ.

The diacritic for aspiration is a superscript " h ", ( e. g., ).

Most of the ISO / IEC 8859 encodings provide diacritic marks required for various European languages using the Latin script.

For example, the modern Yi script is used to write a language that has no diphthongs or syllable codas ; unusually among syllabaries, there is a separate glyph for every consonant-vowel-tone combination ( CVT ) in the language ( apart from one tone which is indicated with a diacritic ).

Although the IPA has no dedicated diacritic for slack voice, the voiceless diacritic ( the under-ring ) may be used with a voiced consonant letter, though this convention is also used for partially voiced consonants in languages such as English.

Schleyer proposed alternate forms for the Umlaut ( diacritic ) | umlaut vowels, but they were rarely used.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the diacritic for dental consonant is

( The Extended IPA diacritic was devised for speech pathology and is frequently used to mean ' alveolarized ', as in the labioalveolar sounds, where the lower lip contacts the alveolar ridge.

This is particularly confusing with letters which can take either diacritic: for example, the consonant is written as " ş " in Turkish but in Romanian, and Romanian writers will sometimes use the former instead of the latter because of insufficient font or character-set support.

The signs formed with diacritic marks are letters in their own right in the Hungarian alphabet ( for instance, they are separate letters for the purpose of collation ).

Although the anusvara is a consonant in Bengali phonology, it is nevertheless treated in the written system as a diacritic in that it is always directly adjacent to the preceding consonant, even when spacing consonants apart in titles or banners ( e. g. < big > ব াং- ল া- দ ে- শ </ big > bang-la-de-sh, not < big > ব া-ং- ল া- দ ে- শ </ big > ba-ng-la-de-sh for < big > ব াং ল া দ ে শ </ big > Bangladesh ), it is never pronounced with the inherent vowel " ô ", and it cannot take a vowel sign ( instead, the consonant < big > ঙ </ big > ungô is used pre-vocalically ).

However, it is rarely a sufficient alternative for manual kerning, as some characters may appear to an algorithmic comparison to be spaced very closely together, but to a human reader might appear to be spaced too far apart ; especially when the only part of a glyph that is ' too close ' is a diacritic sign.

* Another term for bar ( diacritic )

On the typographical side, Š / š and Ž / ž are likely the easiest among non-Western European diacritic characters to adopt for Westerners because the two are part of the Windows-1252 character encoding.

The word ' aspiration ' and the aspiration diacritic are sometimes used with voiced stops, such as ⟨⟩.

The diacritic may be doubled to indicate especially long aspiration, as in Navajo: ⟨⟩ etc.

However, there is an explicit diacritic for a lack of aspiration in the Extensions to the IPA, the superscript equal sign: ⟨⟩, and this is sometimes seen in phonetic descriptions of languages.

* The International Phonetic Alphabet uses diacritic symbols and diacritic letters to indicate phonetic features or secondary articulations.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the diacritic attached to non-syllabic vowel letters is.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet nasalization is indicated by printing a tilde diacritic above the symbol for the sound to be nasalized: is the nasalized equivalent of, and is the nasalized equivalent of.

The linguolabial consonants are transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet by adding the " seagull " diacritic, to the corresponding alveolar consonant, or with the apical diacritic, on the corresponding bilabial consonant.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the diacritic for laminal consonants is.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the diacritic for apical consonants is.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, lack of an audible release is denoted with an upper-right corner diacritic above the consonant letter:,,.

It has no symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet, but the diacritic forms ⟨⟩ and ⟨⟩ are sometimes seen, and a dedicated ad hoc symbol ⟨< span style =" font-family: Gentium Plus, Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, serif "></ span > ⟩ may be easily created ( see below ).

When described in the literature, it is often transcribed by a v modified by the extra-short diacritic, ⟨⟩, following a recommendation of the International Phonetic Association.

The diacritic for this in the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ) is the under-stroke,.

The International Phonetic Alphabet represents ATR with a " left tack " diacritic,.

The diacritic for RTR in the International Phonetic Alphabet is the right tack,.

The Standard Alphabet by Lepsius is a Latin alphabet developed by Karl Richard Lepsius, who initially used it to transcribe Egyptian hieroglyphs and extended it to write African languages or transcribe other languages, published in 1854 and 1855, and in a revised edition ( with many languages added ) in 1863, it was comprehensive but it was not used much as it contains a lot of diacritic marks and therefore was difficult to read, write and typeset at that time.

The initial of tao / dao 道 is a tenuis voiceless alveolar plosive, which is commonly transcribed with the IPA symbol, although some sinologists specify or with the voiceless under-ring diacritic.

If it is necessary to specify a consonant as alveolar, a diacritic from the Extended IPA may be used:, etc ..

The dental stop can be distinguished with the underbridge diacritic, ⟨⟩, the postalveolar with a retraction line, ⟨⟩, and the Extensions to the IPA have a double underline diacritic which can be used to explicitly specify an alveolar pronunciation, ⟨⟩.

The IPA letter ⟨ z ⟩ is not normally used for dental or postalveolar sibilants unless modified by a diacritic (⟨⟩ and ⟨⟩ respectively ).

The diacritic is used in IPA to indicate voicelessness, and in Indo-European studies or in Sanskrit transliteration ( IAST ) to indicate syllabicity of r, l, m, n etc.

An older IPA subscript diacritic, called an ogonek, is still seen, especially when the vowel bears tone marks that would interfere with the superscript tilde.

A tilde plus trema diacritic is used for this in the Extensions to the IPA: is an alveolar nareal fricative, with no airflow out of the mouth, while is an oral fricative ( a ) with simultaneous nareal frication.

Otherwise, the ' unaspirated ' diacritic from the Extended IPA may be employed for this: apt.

The IPA has no separate symbol for these sounds, but it can be transcribed as a devoiced raised velar lateral approximant, ⟨⟩, in which the devoicing ring diacritic is placed above the letter to avoid clashing with the raising diacritic.

Although there is no specific IPA diacritic for stiff voice, the voicing diacritic ( a subscript wedge ) may be used in conjunction with the symbol for a voiced consonant.

The diacritic for dentolabial consonants in the Extended IPA is a superscript bridge, ⟨ ⟩, by analogy with the subscript bridge used for labiodentals.

In the Extended IPA for speech pathology, this is transcribed with a voicing diacritic (, U + 032C ) placed in front of the consonant, as in.