diaereses — di·aer·e·sis || daɪ ɪərɪsɪs n. two dots above the second of two consecutive vowels (indicates separate pronunciation of each vowel) … English contemporary dictionary
Alphabets derived from the Latin — Variants of the Latin alphabet are used by the writing systems of many languages throughout the world. The tables below summarize and compare some of the alphabets known to the various contributors. In this article, the word alphabet is… … Wikipedia
diaeresis — or dieresis noun (plural diaereses) Etymology: Late Latin diaeresis, from Greek diairesis, literally, division, from diairein to divide, from dia + hairein to take Date: circa 1611 1. a mark ¨ placed over a vowel to indicate that the vowel is … New Collegiate Dictionary
Latin alphabet — Infobox Writing system name=Latin alphabet type=Alphabet languages=Latin and Romance languages; most languages of Europe; Romanizations exist for practically all known languages. time= 700 B.C. to the present. fam1=Egyptian hieroglyphs fam2=Proto … Wikipedia
Ö — Ö , or ö , is a character used in several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter O with umlaut to denote the front vowels [ø] or [œ]. In languages without umlaut, the character is also used as a O with diaeresis to denote a syllable break,… … Wikipedia
Heavy metal umlaut — The heavy metal umlaut is the gratuitous or decorative use of an umlaut over letters in the name of a heavy metal band, such as Mötley Crüe or Motörhead. The use of umlauts and other diacritics with a blackletter style typeface is a form of… … Wikipedia
Scrabble letter distributions — Many editions of the word board game Scrabble vary in the letter distribution of the tiles, because the frequency of each letter of the alphabet is different for every language. As a general rule, the rarer the letter the more points it is… … Wikipedia
Seneca language — language name=Seneca nativename=Onödowága familycolor=American states=United States, Canada region=Western New York and the Six Nations Reserve, Ontario speakers=200 fam1=Iroquoian fam2=Northern Iroquoian fam3=Proto Lake Iroquoian fam4=Iroquois… … Wikipedia
Dinka language — This article is about the language, for the ethnic group see Dinka. Dinka Thuɔŋjäŋ Pronunciation /t̪uɔŋ.ɟa̤ŋ/ Spoken in … Wikipedia
diacritic marks — diacritic marks, apostrophes or diaereses are not to be used in a taxonomic name and are to be deleted from such names originally published with them, e.g. the German umlaut sign is deleted from a vowel and should be replaced by an e inserted… … Dictionary of ichthyology
