Double grave accent
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The double grave accent is a diacritic used in scholarly discussions of the Serbo-Croatian language complex and sometimes of the Slovenian language. The double grave accent is used to indicate a short falling tone in these languages, though in discussion of Slovenian, a single grave accent is also often used for this purpose. The double grave accent is found with both the Latin and the Cyrillic alphabet; however, it is not used in the everyday orthography of either language, but is used only in discussions of the phonology of these languages.
The letters a e i o r u and their Cyrillic equivalents а е и о р у can all be found with the double grave accent. Unicode provides precombined characters for the upper- and lowercase Latin letters, but not the Cyrillic ones. The Cyrillic letters can be formed using the combining character for the double acute, which is located at U+30F.
| Latin alphabet | Cyrillic alphabet | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uppercase | Unicode | Lowercase | Unicode | Uppercase | Unicode | Lowercase | Unicode |
| Ȁ | U+200 | ȁ | U+201 | А̏ | U+410, U+30F | а̏ | U+430, U+30F |
| Ȅ | U+204 | ȅ | U+205 | Е̏ | U+415, U+30F | е̏ | U+435, U+30F |
| Ȉ | U+208 | ȉ | U+209 | И̏ | U+418, U+30F | и̏ | U+438, U+30F |
| Ȍ | U+20C | ȍ | U+20D | Ο̏ | U+41E, U+30F | о̏ | U+43E, U+30F |
| Ȑ | U+210 | ȑ | U+211 | Р̏ | U+420, U+30F | р̏ | U+440, U+30F |
| Ȕ | U+214 | ȕ | U+215 | У̏ | U+423, U+30F | у̏ | U+443, U+30F |
[edit] Reference
- Carlton, Terence R. (1991). Introduction to the phonological history of the Slavic languages. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers. ISBN 0-89357-223-3.
