diacritic

Also known as diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, diacritics, accent, accent mark

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A diacritic is a small mark added above, below, or through a letter to change how it's pronounced or to distinguish it from other letters. These marks are used in many languages around the world—for example, the accent over the "e" in "café" or the tilde over the "n" in "señor"—and they're important for spelling words correctly and pronouncing them the way native speakers do.

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Types
Diacritics specific to non-Latin alphabets
Arabic
Greek
Hebrew
Korean
Sanskrit and Indic
Syriac
Non-alphabetic scripts
Alphabetization or collation
Generation with computers
Languages with letters containing diacritics
Latin script
Baltic
Celtic
Finno-Ugric
Germanic
Romance
Slavic
Turkic
Other
Cyrillic letters
Diacritics that do not produce new letters
English
Other languages
Transliteration
Limits
Orthographic
Unorthographic/ornamental
List of diacritics in Unicode {{anchor|1=Diactritics in Unicode}}
See also
Notes
References
External links

thumb|class=skin-invert-image|Latin letter A with multiple diacritics

A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in an attributive sense, whereas diacritical is only an adjective. Some diacritics, such as the acute , grave , and circumflex (all shown above an 'o'), are often called accents. Diacritics may appear above or below a letter or in some other position such as within the letter or between two letters.