Caron
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Caron is also known as háček or haček. It originated from dot above in Czech orthography.[1] Note that the caron is easily confused with the similar looking breve ˘, especially in small font sizes.
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Caron in Unicode
| ˇ | ◌̌ | Ǎ | ǎ | Č | č | Ď | ď | DŽ | Dž | dž | Ě | ě |
| U+02C7 | U+030C | U+01CD | U+01CD | U+010C | U+010D | U+010E | U+010F | U+01C4 | U+01C5 | U+01C6 | U+011A | U+011B |
| Caron | Combining Caron | Latin Letter Capital A With Caron | Latin Letter Small A With Caron | Latin Capital Letter C With Caron | Latin Small Letter C With Caron | Latin Capital Letter D With Caron | Latin Small Letter D With Caron | Latin Capital Letter Dz With Caron | Latin Capital Letter D With Small Letter Z With Caron | Latin Small Letter Dz With Caron | Latin Capital Letter E With Caron | Latin Small Letter E With Caron |
| Note: May be confused with Modifier Letter Down Arrowhead, ˅ (U+02C5). | Note: The caron looks actually like an apostrophe placed to the right of the ascender of the d. | |||||||||||
| Ǧ | ǧ | Ȟ | ȟ | Ǐ | ǐ | ǰ | Ǩ | ǩ | Ľ | ľ | Ň | ň |
| U+01E6 | U+01E7 | U+021E | U+021F | U+01CF | U+01D0 | U+01F0 | U+01E8 | U+01E9 | U+013D | U+013E | U+0147 | U+0148 |
| Latin Capital Letter G With Caron | Latin Small Letter G With Caron | Latin Capital Letter H With Caron | Latin Small Letter H With Caron | Latin Capital Letter I With Caron | Latin Small Letter I With Caron | Latin Small Letter J With Caron | Latin Capital Letter K With Caron | Latin Small Letter K With Caron | Latin Capital Letter L With Caron | Latin Small Letter L With Caron | Latin Capital Letter N With Caron | Latin Small Letter N With Caron |
| Note: The caron looks actually like an apostrophe placed to the right of the ascender of the Ll. | ||||||||||||
| Ǒ | ǒ | Ř | ř | Š | š | Ṧ | ṧ | Ť | ť | Ǔ | ǔ | Ǚ |
| U+01D1 | U+01D2 | U+0158 | U+0159 | U+0160 | U+0161 | U+1E66 | U+1E67 | U+0164 | U+0165 | U+01D3 | U+01D4 | U+01D9 |
| Latin Capital Letter O With Caron | Latin Small Letter O With Caron | Latin Capital Letter R With Caron | Latin Small Letter R With Caron | Latin Capital Letter S With Caron | Latin Small Letter S With Caron | Latin Capital Letter S With Caron And Dot Above | Latin Small Letter S With Caron And Dot Above | Latin Capital Letter T With Caron | Latin Small Letter T With Caron | Latin Capital Letter U With Caron | Latin Small Letter U With Caron | Latin Capital Letter U With Diaeresis And Caron |
| Note: The caron looks actually like an apostrophe placed to the right of the ascender of the t. | ||||||||||||
| ǚ | Ž | ž | Ǯ | ǯ | ||||||||
| U+01DA | U+017D | U+017E | U+01EE | U+01EF | ||||||||
| Latin Small Letter U With Diaeresis And Caron | Latin Capital Letter Z With Caron | Latin Small Letter Z With Caron | Latin Capital Letter Ezh With Caron | Latin Small Letter Ezh With Caron | ||||||||
Caron in Natlangs
| Usage | Language | Letters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alphabet extension | Pashto (Yaqubi romanization) | Čč /tʃ/, Ěě /ə/, Šš /ʃ/, Š̱š̱ /ʂ/, Žž /ʒ/, Ẕ̌ẕ̌ /ʐ/ | Cc, Ee, Ss, S̱s̱, Zz, Ẕẕ without caron stand for /ts, e, s, s, z, z/ respectively.[2] |
| Change of manner of articulation | Czech | Řř /r̝/ | This is a raised non-sonorant trill. Unaccented Rr stands for /r/.[3] |
| Disambiguation in transliteration | Amharic (BGN/PCGN 1967 transliteration) | Šš /s/ | The Geʽez script has two types of characters that are both pronounced /s/ in Amharic due to sound mergers. These may be transliterated with Ss and Šš. The caron may also be dropped though.[4] |
| Falling-rising (dipping) tone | Fon | Ǎǎ [a᷉], Ěě [e᷉], Ɛ̌ɛ̌ [ɛ᷉], Ǐǐ [i᷉], Ǒǒ [o᷉], Ɔ̌ɔ̌ [ɔ᷉], Ǔǔ [u᷉] | The falling-rising tone is not phonemic in Fon, but it is still marked with a caron. Tones are however not always marked at all.[5] Note that Ɛ̌ɛ̌ and Ɔ̌ɔ̌ are not precomposed characters. |
| Mandarin (Pinyin romanization) | Ǎǎ /a˨˩˦/, Ěě /ə˨˩˦/, Ǐǐ /i˨˩˦/, Ǒǒ /ə˨˩˦/, Ǔǔ /u˨˩˦/, Ǚǚ /y˨˩˦/ | Pinyin was created in the 1950s, and its tone marks were based on the Bopomofo phonetic notation.[6] Note that these tone values are based on the Beijing dialect.[7] | |
| Palatal phoneme | Czech | Ďď /ɟ/, Ěě /(j)ɛ/, Ňň /ɲ/, Ťť /c/ | Ěě stands for an /ɛ/ that makes a previous Dd, Nn, Tt be /ɟ, ɲ, c/, a previous Bb, Ff, Pp, Vv be /bj, fj, pj, vj/, and a previous Mm /mɲ/. This letter is not found in other positions.[8] |
| Slovak | Ďď /ɟ/, Ľľ /ʎ/, Ňň /ɲ/, Ťť /c/ | In Slovak handwriting ď, ľ and ť have an actual caron instead of an apostrophe.[9] | |
| Postalveolar consonant | Akkadian (DMG-umschrift transliteration), Ancient Egyptian (traditional transliteration) | Šš /ʃ/ | Because Akkadian[10] and Ancient Egyptian[11] are extinct languages, the exact pronunciation can't be known for sure; so the phonemic representation here might not be entirely accurate. |
| Arabic (DIN 31635 romanization, ISO/R 233 romanization) | Čč /t͡ʃ/, Ǧǧ /d͡ʒ~ʒ~ɡ/, Šš /ʃ/, Žž /ʒ~zˤ/ | Čč and Žž represent the letters چ and ز which are not Arabic letters, but can be used in Arabic texts for transcribing sounds found in other languages.[12][13] | |
| Arabic (ISO 233 romanization) | Ǧǧ /d͡ʒ~ʒ~ɡ/, Šš /ʃ/ | ||
| Arabic (Hans Wehr romanization) | ǧ /d͡ʒ~ʒ~ɡ/, š /ʃ/, ž /ʒ~zˤ/ | ǧ was replaced by j in the fourth edition of this romanization scheme.[14] ž represents the letter ز which is not an Arabic letter, but can be used in Arabic texts for transcribing sounds found in other languages.[13] Hans Wehr romanization does not include capital letters.[14] | |
| Czech, Latgalian, Latvian | Čč /tʃ/, Šš /ʃ/, Žž /ʒ/ | Unaccented Cc stands for /ts/ in Czech, Latvian and Latgalian. | |
| Darī (Yaqubi romanization) | Čč /tʃ/, Šš /ʃ/, Žž /ʒ/ | Unaccented Ss, Zz stand for /s, z/ respectively.[15] | |
| Livonian | Šš /ʃ/, Žž /ʒ/ | ||
| North Sami (1979 orthography) | Čč /tʃ/, Šš /ʃ/, Žž /dʒ/ | Unaccented Cc stands for /ts/, and unaccented Zz for /dz/. | |
| Slovak | Čč /tʃ/, DŽdž /dʒ/, Šš /ʃ/, Žž /ʒ/ | ||
| Retroflex consonant | Adyghe (BGN/PCGN 2012 romanization) | Čč /ʈʂ/ | There is no simple Cc in the BGN/PCGN 2012 romanization, but there is a Ch ch which represents /tʃ/.[16] |
| Serbian | Čč /ʈʂ/, DŽ Dž dž /ɖʐ/, Šš /ʂ/, Žž /ʐ/ | These sounds are often transcribed as postalveolar /tʃ, dʒ, ʃ, ʒ/.[17] DŽ is only used in all-caps text, and is consider the capital letter. Dž is used when only the first letter of a word is capitalized, and it is referred to as titlecase.[18] | |
| Uvular consonant | Heiltsuk-Oowekyala (Heiltsuk dialect, official orthography and Rath's orthography) | Ǧǧ /ɢ/, Ǧv ǧv /ɢʷ/, X̌x̌ /χ/, X̌v x̌v /χʷ/ | Note that X̌x̌ is not a precomposed letter. |
Caron in Phonetic Transcription
| Use | Transcription system | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Rising tone | International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) | Used on top of vowels (or syllabic consonants). |
See Also
- Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet
- Breve
- Transliteration of Arabic (Pedersen, Thomas. 2008.) has a concise list of comparisons between DIN 31635, ISO 233, ISO/R 233, UNGEGN, ALA-LC, and The Encyclopedia of Islam romanizations of Arabic.
References
- ↑ Caron, Origin at Wikipedia.
- ↑ BGN/PCGN National Romanization System for Afghanistan (PDF). See also Pashto phonology at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Czech language, Consonants at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Romanization of Amharic (PDF).
- ↑ Fon language, Tone marking at Wikipedia. See also Fon language, Tone for a short overview of the tonal system of Fon.
- ↑ Pinyin, History after 1949 at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Mandarin Chinese, Tones at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Czech orthography, Letter Ě at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Slovak language, Orthography at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Akkadian language, Phonetics and phonology at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Egyptian language, Phonology at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Che (Persian letter) at Wikipedia.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Že at Wikipedia.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Hans Wehr transliteration at Wikipedia.
- ↑ BGN/PCGN National Romanization System for Afghanistan (PDF). See also Dari at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Romanization of Adyghe (PDF). See also Adyghe language, Alphabet at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Gaj's Latin Alphabet, Letters at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Gaj's Latin alphabet, Digraphs at Wikipedia.
