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Translingual
Diacritical mark
῀
- Greek circumflex, perispomene
Ancient Greek
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| A gray lowercase alpha with a red circumflex in its allograph as an inverted breve on the left, and in the form that influenced the modern shape of the tilde on the right. |
Diacritical mark
◌͂
- A diacritical mark of the Greek script, called περισπωμένη (perispōménē, “twisted around”) in Ancient Greek, and found on ᾶ (â), ῆ (ê), ῖ (î), ῦ (û), and ῶ (ô). It is also known as circumflex and is printed either like an inverted breve or like a tilde. It was used to indicate the presence of a falling pitch accent on a long vowel or diphthong in the penultimate or final syllable of a word.
See also
- (Greek-script letters) Α α, Β β, Γ γ, Δ δ, Ε ε, Ζ ζ, Η η, Θ θ, Ι ι, Κ κ, Λ λ, Μ μ, Ν ν, Ξ ξ, Ο ο, Π π, Ρ ρ, Σ σ ς, Τ τ, Υ υ, Φ φ, Χ χ, Ψ ψ, Ω ω
- (non-Classical letters) Ϝ (W) ϝ (w), Ͷ ͷ, Ͱ (H) ͱ (h), Ϻ (S) ϻ (s), Ϟ ϟ, Ϙ (Q) ϙ (q), Ͳ (S) ͳ (s)
- (punctuation) · ;
- (diacritics) ᾿ ῾ ◌́ ◌̀ ῀ ¨
Vietnamese
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| Only the from that inspired the modern tilde is used in Vietnamese. |
Diacritical mark
◌͂
- A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called dấu ngã (“tumbling mark”) in Vietnamese, and found on Ã/ã, Ẵ/ẵ, Ẫ/ẫ, Ẽ/ẽ, Ễ/ễ, Ĩ/ĩ, Õ/õ, Ỗ/ỗ, Ỡ/ỡ, Ũ/ũ, Ữ/ữ and Ỹ/ỹ. Called circumflexus in Latin, it is used to indicate the mid-rising glottalized tone.
Usage notes
In Unicode, the dấu ngã tone mark, or circumflexus, is misidentified with the tilde or apex, ◌̃, which did not have the same graphic form when the Vietnamese Latin alphabet was created, and which was used on some vowel letters for syllable-final /ŋ/, written ng in modern orthography.
In some dialects of Vietnamese, particularly Saigonese, the mid-rising, glottalized tone is conflated with the mid falling-rising, harsh tone represented by ◌̉. Therefore, speakers of Saigonese often use ◌̉ in words that are spelled with a dấu ngã in standard written Vietnamese.
In Vietnamese handwriting and signmaking, the letter I/i retains its tittle.
In Vietnamese handwriting, when the dấu ngã is combined with the circumflex, the left side of the dấu ngã may be omitted and its right side curled.
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