diacritical mark

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diacritical mark - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation

mark - a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation); "his answer was just a punctuation mark"

accent mark, accent - a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation

breve - a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound

cedilla - a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s

circumflex - a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality

hacek, wedge - a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation

macron - a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound

tilde - a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization

diaeresis, dieresis, umlaut - a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound

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accent
accent mark
acute
acute accent
ague
breve
cedilla
circumflex
diacritic
diaeresis
dieresis
grave
grave accent
ha-=*ccaron.gif=-ek
hacek
language
linguistic communication
macron
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Whether the Qur'an was originally written in a script that contained diacritical marks is very important because Western Qur'an scholars generally say that it wasn't and therefore feel free to make some amendments to the Qur'anic text by changing the diacritical marks to give it a different meaning," he said.

First Islamic inscription may help solve Qur'an mystery by Asian News International

Here he strips it of all those diacritical marks, critical apparatus, and other paraphernalia that academics require of each other, and adds explanatory notes for educated general readers.

Ibn Fadlan's journey to Russia; a tenth-century traveler from Baghdad ... by Reference & Research Book News

First Islamic inscription may help solve Qur'an mystery by Asian News International