Double acute accent
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The double acute accent ( ̋ ) is a diacritic mark of the latin script used primarily in written Hungarian.
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Use in Hungarian
Standard Hungarian has 14 vowels in a symmetrical system: seven short vowels, (a, e, i, o, ö, u, ü) and seven long ones, which are written with in the case of a, e, i, o, u with an acute accent, and in the case of ö, ü with the double acute (instead of using umlaut+acute).
The double acute acts as combined acute with umlaut, giving the longer version of ö and ü.
| short | a | e | i | o | ö | u | ü |
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| long | á | é | í | ó | ő | ú | ű |
In the 18th century, when hungarian typography was not fixed yet, the trema+acute form (ǘ) can be discovered in some printed documents. The double-acute version was found to be a more esthetical solution and introduced by 19th century typographers.
Other uses
The double acute accent is also used in south Slavic phonetic alphabets as used by linguists to show a certain kind of tone. It is not used in orthography, and is not part of any southern Slavic alphabet.
Technical notes
O and U with double acute accents are supported in the ISO 8859-2 and UTF-8 codepages.
All occurencies of "double acute" in the Unicode 4.1 standard:
| Ő | Ő | U+0150 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE |
| ő | ő | U+0151 | LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE |
| Ű | Ű | U+0170 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE |
| ű | ű | U+0171 | LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE |
| ˝ | ˝ | U+02DD | DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT |
| ˶ | ˶ | U+02F6 | MODIFIER LETTER MIDDLE DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT |
| ̋ | ̋ | U+030B | COMBINING DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT |
| Ӳ | Ӳ | U+04F2 | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE |
| ӳ | ӳ | U+04F3 | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE |
| ᐥ | ᐥ | U+1425 | CANADIAN SYLLABICS FINAL DOUBLE ACUTE |
Note, that the last entry is unrelated to the others above, and got its name purely by analogy of its shape.
See also
External link
- Diacritics Project — All you need to design a font with correct accents (http://diacritics.typo.cz) (contains some incorrect/sloppy data on history)
| Latin alphabet: | Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Qq | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz |
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| Modified characters: |
Àà | Áá | Ââ | Ää | Åå | Āā | Ąą | Çç | Ĉĉ | Čč | Ćć | Đđ | Ęę | Ëë | Ĝĝ | Ğğ | Ĥĥ | Įį | Ïï | İı | Ĵĵ | Łł | Ññ | Õõ | Öö | Őő | Øø | Ǫǫ | Şş | Șș | Šš | Ŝŝ | Țț | Ŭŭ | Üü | Ųų | Ůů | Űű | Žž |
| Alphabet extensions: | Ææ | Ðð | DZdz | DŽdž | Əə | Ȝȝ | Ƕƕ | ĸ | LJlj | LLll | NJnj | Ŋŋ | Œœ | Ȣȣ | [[Half r|]] | ſ | ß | Þþ | Ƿƿ | IJij |