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

In Ancient Greek grammar, the palatal approximant, which was lost early in the history of Greek, is sometimes written as ( iota with the inverted breve below, the non-syllabic diacritic or marker of a semivowel ).

For typographic convenience, the breve is sometimes used for a non-syllabic vowel ( that is, part of a diphthong ), which is officially indicated by a similar diacritic placed under the vowel letter, as in eye.

A vowel is also understood to be syllabic: an equivalent open but non-syllabic sound is called a semivowel.

However, the distinction between consonant and vowel is not always clear cut: there are syllabic consonants and non-syllabic vowels in many of the world's languages.

Sometimes known as a " pseudo-vowel ", a word final non-syllabic vowel that is often reduced in quick speech to a velarisation or pharyngisation ( respectively ) of the preceding consonant often accompanied with aspiration.

In Esperanto, it is used above the u to form a non-syllabic u, similar to the sound of an English w.

The letter ŭ is called non-syllabic u ( romanised: u nieskładovaje ) in Belarusian because it resembles the vowel u but forms no syllables.

As in Belarusian, Esperanto Ŭ is pronounced as a non-syllabic, primarily in the diphthongs aŭ and eŭ.

The letter is called non-syllabic u or short u ( Belarusian: у нескладовае, u nieskladovaje or у кароткае, u karotkaje ) in Belarusian, because while resembling the vowel у ( u ) it does not form syllables.

* PIE syllabic sonorants were substituted with sequences of a short vowel (* i or * u ) and a non-syllabic sonorant

Some approximants resemble vowels in acoustic and articulatory properties and the terms semivowel and glide are often used for these non-syllabic vowel-like segments.

A caron ( ˇ ) or háček (; from Czech háček ), also known as a wedge, inverted circumflex, inverted hat, is a diacritic placed over certain letters to indicate present or historical palatalization, iotation, or postalveolar pronunciation in the orthography of some Baltic, Slavic, Finno-Lappic, and other languages.

** – sicilicus, a palaeographic diacritic similar to a caron or breve

:* 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 accent mark ( diacritic ) is known as a breve.

* Inverted breve, a diacritic sign

* Hebrew has many various diacritic marks known as niqqud that are used above and below script to represent vowels.

When necessary, vowels are indicated by diacritic marks above or below the letter representing the syllabic onset, or by use of matres lectionis, which are consonantal letters used as vowels.

The use of a zero-width non-joiner between the letter and the diacritic can alleviate this problem: "" and "" may display properly, but may not ; see below.

" Specifically, the lack of differentiation between retroflex and dental consonants ( e. g. द and ड are both represented by d ) has come in for repeated criticism and inspired several proposed modifications of Hunterian, including using a diacritic below retroflexes ( e. g. making द = d and ड = ḍ, which is more readable but requires diacritic printing ) or capitalizing them ( e. g. making द = d and ड = D, which requires no diacritic printing but is less readable because it mixes small and capital letters in words ).

When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot is usually reserved for the Interpunct ( · ), or to the glyphs ' combining dot above ' ( ) and ' combining dot below ' ( )

Very frequently ( in modern transliterations of Sanskrit ) an underdot is used instead of the ring ( diacritic ) below the vocalic r and l.

# < span id =" n-ro ">↑ Romanian normally uses a comma diacritic below the letters s and t ( ș, ț ), but it is frequently replaced with an attached cedilla below these letters ( ş, ţ ) due to past lack of standardization.

A ring diacritic may appear above or below letters.

Iota is the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet ( ι ), and was used as a small diacritic below other vowels ( the hypogegrammeni ) in ancient Greek texts ; however, the earliest gospel texts are all uncials ( capital letters only ).

A diacritic called kai, which does not occur with the other consonants, is added below a nasal consonant to write the vowel.

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 ).

In the polytonic orthography of Greek, alpha, like other vowel letters, can occur with several diacritic marks: any of three accent symbols (), and either of two breathing marks (), as well as combinations of these.

A few English words can only be distinguished from others by a diacritic or modified letter, including animé, exposé, lamé, maté, öre, øre, pâté, piqué, rosé, and soufflé.

Without the diacritic, the sequence can represent either a diphthong () or two vowels in hiatus ().

In a very broad sense it can refer to the entire chain of Jewish tradition ( see Oral law ), but in reference to the Masoretic Text the word mesorah has a very specific meaning: the diacritic markings of the text of the Hebrew Bible and concise marginal notes in manuscripts ( and later printings ) of the Hebrew Bible which note textual details, usually about the precise spelling of words.

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.

Usually, the diacritic in an isolated form can be generated with the dead key followed by space, so a plain grave accent can be typed by pressing and then.

The Sütterlin lower-case ' e ' resembles two slanted bars, in which the origin of the umlaut diacritic from a small ' e ' written above the modified vowel can be seen.

Use of combining diacritics means that Windows-1258 can cover the large number of letter / diacritic combinations in Vietnamese without compromising coverage of control codes or symbols.

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, ⟨⟩.

Alternatively, especially for those sounds with a relatively forward articulation ( e. g. in the or postalveolar region rather than the hard palate ), they can be indicated with a retracted diacritic ( underbar ); this occurs especially for.

The tittle is an integral part of the glyph of i and j, but diacritic dots can appear over other letters in various languages.

Only three letters from that alphabet can reliably be used: samekh ( ס ), which sometimes resembles o, vav with diacritic ( ו ֹ), which resembles an i, and heth ( ח ), which resembles the letter n. Less accurate approximants for some other alphanumerics can also be found, but these are usually only accurate enough to use for the purposes of foreign branding and not for substitution.

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.

There is a separate " combining diacritic acute tone mark " at U + 0341 for the romanization of tone languages, one important difference between the two being that in a language like French, the acute accent can replace the dot over the lowercase i, whereas in a language like Vietnamese, the acute tone mark is added above the dot.

The diacritics on á a ̍ à represent high, mid, and low tone ( tone does not need to be marked on every vowel ), while the diacritic on a ̩ is used for vowel harmony and can be ignored.