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Diacritical marks
accent
acute accent ( ˊ )
double acute accent ( ˝ )
grave accent ( ˋ )
breve ( ˘ )
caron / háček ( ˇ )
cedilla ( ¸ )
circumflex ( ˆ )
diaeresis / umlaut ( ¨ )
dot ( · )
anunaasika ( ˙ )
anusvaara (  ̣ )
hook / dấu hỏi (  ̉ )
macron ( ˉ )
ogonek ( ˛ )
ring / kroužek ( ˚ )
rough breathing / spiritus asper ( ʽ )
smooth breathing / spiritus lenis (  ʼ )
Marks sometimes used as diacritics
apostrophe ( )
bar ( )
colon ( : )
comma ( , )
hyphen ( ˗ )
tilde ( ˜ )
titlo (  ҃ )

Anunaasika (anunāsika), also called chandrabindu ("moon and dot"), is a dot on top of a breve above a letterमँ ), used as a diacritic in Sanskrit and other Indo-Aryan languages written in devanagari script to represent vowel nasalization. When transliterated, it is represented with a tilde above the letter ( ~ ).

See also
Anusvaara

 


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