Vietnamese apex
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Vietnamese apex
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In the 17th century, a curved diacritic with the Latin name of apex was adopted to mark final nasalization in the early Vietnamese alphabet. It derived from the Portuguese tilde which often had that shape in the 17th century. The tilde used today, derived from Greek circumflex (perispomeni) with that shape, was also used to mark one of the tones. In his 1651 Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum, Alexandre de Rhodes describes the diacritic: The apex appears atop ⟨o⟩, ⟨u⟩, and less common
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