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Contents 1 Portuguese 2 THERE ARE NO CIRCUMFLEXES IN THIS ARTICLE 3 Disambiguation with Caret 4 What's Naliuhn? 5 New Orleans? 6 Norwegian? 7 Dutch and Frisian

[edit] Portuguese

Regarding the use of the circumflex in Portuguese, it is said to mark "roundedness" of a word. Where does this information come from, originally? As a native Portuguese speaker, I had never heard of the circumflex as denoting roundedness, denoting rather closedness, much the same as the French acute accent. However, seeing that diacritics in general in Portuguese are "skewed", I'm uncertain if this sort of information has a historical backing.--Wtrmute 18:46, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

You are quite right, Wtrmute. in Portuguese, the circumflex indicates a close-mid vowel, or a central vowel. I have corrected this in the article. S.V., 15 Nov 2005.

[edit] THERE ARE NO CIRCUMFLEXES IN THIS ARTICLE

And the large diagram with the capital A's are all wearing inverted circumflexes. Please fix this someone! Nuttyskin 23:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation with Caret

Someone should disambig Cirumflex and Caret. ^ redirects here, but the caret is often used for exponents when superscripts aren't available; e.g., 5^2=25. Archola

[edit] What's Naliuhn?

This is mentioned in this article, but the only Google result for it is this article another one Google with a list of languages. Maybe it was vandalism? --Awiseman 02:25, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Looks like it: Removed. Mucky Duck 12:28, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Orleans?

The intro says it's used in the dialect of American English around New Orleans. Does anyone have more info on this? Is it just the legacy of the French influence in that area? I didn't know dialects of English ever had standardised written variations. Rojomoke 09:57, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like a complete lkoad of B.S. to me. --Nelson Ricardo 00:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Norwegian?

Norwegian alphabet don't used or rarely used this diacritic signal. In the Portuguese language uses a sign in â, ê an ô. Rarely used in î or û. --201.19.213.56 21:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dutch and Frisian

As native Dutch and Frisian speaker I would like to share my information about this subject. In the article is written that the circumflex is used in Dutch, but it's used exceptionally in Dutch and can only be used on the 'e'. I suggest this to be added to the article.

The article is also mentioning Frisian, but doesn't add any additional information about the usage of the circonflex in Frisian while the circonflex is used often in Frisian. In Frisian it appears on the 'a', 'u', 'o', 'i', and 'e'.

• On the 'a', 'o', 'e' to indicate an open vowel.
• On the 'u' it's used to change its sound to 'u' as in German 'gut'.
• According to the Frisian wikipedia also the 'î' is used, but I don't know when and where. If it's used at all it is used very rare and probably only in some dialects. If it's used it probably is used as 'ay' in the English word 'day'.