![]() The main use of diacritical marks in the Latin script is to change the sound-values of the letters to which they are added. Diacritical marks may appear above or below a letter, or in some other position such as within the letter or between two letters. Some diacritical marks, such as the acute (´) and grave (`), are often called accents. Diacritic is primarily an adjective, though sometimes used as a noun, whereas diacritical is only ever an adjective. The term derives from the Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, «distinguishing», from ancient Greek διά (diá, through) and κρίνω (krínein, to separate)). It also contains the Combining Grapheme Joiner, which prevents canonical reordering of combining characters, and despite the name, actually separates characters that would otherwise be considered a single grapheme in a given context.Ī diacritic /daɪ.əˈkrɪtɨk/ – also diacritical mark, diacritical point, or diacritical sign – is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph. Combining Diacritical Marks is a Unicode block containing the most common combining characters.
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