Macron (diacritic)
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macron-diacritic-186-2731978
title:
Macron (diacritic)
text:
A macron is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar ¯ placed above a letter, usually a vowel. Its name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón) 'long' because it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics. It now more often marks a long vowel. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the macron is used to indicate a mid-tone; the sign for a long vowel is instead a modified triangular colon ⟩. The opposite is the breve ⟨˘⟩, which marks a short or light syllable o
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Diacritical mark
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macron_(diacritic)
date created:
2001-09-11T06:49:12Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T21:40:32Z
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