Vietnamese alphabet
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The Vietnamese alphabet is a Latin-based modern writing script for the Vietnamese language. It has spelling conventions derived from the orthography of Romance languages such as Portuguese, Italian, a
A page from Alexandre de Rhodes' 1651 dictionary
Diacritic
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A diacritic is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός, from διακρίνω. The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in an attrib
Hangul, the Korean syllabary
German keyboard with umlaut letters
Blackboard used in class at Harvard shows students' efforts at placing the ü and acute accent diacritic used in Spanish orthography.