#diacritic

[paexie]

Nue - oc

[holymolyyikes]

whatss that lil accent mean

it's a diaeresis which is an outdated diacritic which you put over repeated letters (mostly) to indicate you pronounce it as separate syllables. like coöperate. this is why for chlöe and nöel. nobody uses it anymore in english (except for the new yorker surprisingly) but i thought i'd do a classic throwback

[thatpollguy]

How much of the International Phonetic Alphabet do you know?

-I know all of the letters and diacritics

-I know most of the letters and diacritics

-I know some of the letters and diacritics

-I know a few of the letters and diacritics

-I know none of the letters and diacritics

Thanks to @floydbolsonenjoyer for the great poll idea! I would never have thought of this one, so I appreciate the new topic :-)

How much of the International Phonetic Alphabet do you know?

I know all of the letters and diacritics

I know most of the letters and diacritics

I know some of the letters and diacritics

I know a few of the letters and diacritics

I know none of the letters and diacritics

I don't know what the International Phonetic Alphabet is

Voting ended onJan 8

[daily-spanish-word]

day el día

Just remember that this word is written with a diacritic on the ‘í’.

What day is it? ¿Qué día es hoy?

Picture by Philipp Antar on Flickr

[wtf-fun-factss]

The dot over the i and j has a funny name. Click to read the full fact.

[stephenescher]

How to Create a Romanisation System for Your Conlang

How to Create a Romanisation System for Your #Conlang: Includes rant about #Klingon

The name of Nìmpyèshiu’s native writing system: in Nìmpyèwèn (left), romanised (top-right),  and in IPA transcription (bottom-right).

I like IPA a lot, and I always highly recommend using it when creating and describing your conlang’s phonology. However, most people don’t even know what the IPA is and they may interpret that first sentence rather differently. In some situations, it is more…

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[imtryingtolearngerman]

Diacritics in Portuguese

Diacritics are very important in Portuguese, since they can change the meaning of a word. For example:

Coco means coconut - pronounced as CÔco

Cocô means poop -  pronounced as coCÔ

Coco is a type of bacteria (yes, it’s spelled the same way as coconut) - pronounced as CÓco 

Sábia means wise (used for women and female nouns) - the female form of sábio

Sabia is a conjugated form of the verb “saber” meaning to know

Sabiá is how the birds of the genus Turdus are called

The diacritic indicates the strong syllable

(Sabiá) 

[wordisdrawn]

diacritic [dahy-uh-krit-ik] noun; a mark, point, or sign added or attached to a letter or character to distinguish it from another of similar form, to give it a particular phonetic value, to indicate stress, etc., as a cedilla, tilde, circumflex, or macron.