Breve

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Note that the breve is easily confused with the similar looking caron ˇ, especially in small font sizes.

Breve in Unicode

Characters with Breve
˘ ◌̆ Ă ă
U+02D8 U+0306 U+0102 U+0103 U+1EAE U+1EAF U+1EB0 U+1EB1 U+1EB2 U+1EB3 U+1EB4 U+1EB5 U+1EB6
Breve Combining Breve Latin Capital Letter A With Breve Latin Small Letter A With Breve Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Acute Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Acute Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Grave Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Grave Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Hook Above Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Hook Above Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Tilde Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Tilde Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Dot Below
Ĕ ĕ Ğ ğ Ĭ ĭ Ŏ ŏ Ŭ ŭ
U+1EB7 U+0114 U+0115 U+1E1C U+1E1D U+011E U+011F U+012C U+012D U+014E U+014F U+016C U+016D
Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Dot Below Latin Capital Letter E With Breve Latin Small Letter E With Breve Latin Capital Letter E With Cedilla And Breve Latin Small Letter E With Cedilla And Breve Latin Capital Letter G With Breve Latin Small Letter G With Breve Latin Capital Letter I With Breve Latin Small Letter I With Breve Latin Capital Letter O With Breve Latin Small Letter O With Breve Latin Capital Letter U With Breve Latin Small Letter U With Breve

Breve in Natlangs

Uses of Breve
Usage Language Letters Notes
Change of manner of articulation Turkish Ğğ /ɰ/ The realization [ɰ] only occurs in some dialects. Otherwise Ğğ represents a syllable break, length on the preceding vowel or [j], depending on the context.[1]
Change of manner and place of articulation Kazakh (2019 and 2021 alphabets as well as Kazinform's romanization) Ğğ /ʁ/ Unaccented Gg stands for /ɡ/.[2]
High tone Min Dong (Fuzhou dialect, Foochow romanization) Ăă /a˥, ɑ˥/, Ă̤ă̤ /ɛ˥, a˥/, Ĕĕ /ɛi˥/, Ĕ̤ĕ̤ /œ˥/, Ĭĭ /i˥/, Ŏŏ /ou˥/, Ŏ̤ŏ̤ /o˥, ɔ˥/, Ŭŭ /u˥/, Ṳ̆ṳ̆ /y˥/ Note that the letters here that contain ◌̤ are not precomposed characters.
Lax vowel Moldovan, Romanian Ăă /ə/
Short vowel Vietnamese Ăă /a˧/, Ắắ /a˧˥/, Ằằ /a̤˨˩/, Ẳẳ /a˧˩˧/, Ẵẵ /aˀ˧˥/, Ặặ /a̰ʔ˨˩/ Unaccented Aa generally stands for /aː/.[3]
Silent vowel Arabic (ISO/R 233 romanization) Ăă [∅], Ĭĭ [∅], Ŭŭ [∅] These letters are used for transcribing the Arabic letter ٱ when the vowel is unpronounced.[4][5]

Breve in Phonetic Transcription

Uses of breve
Use Transcription system Notes
Extra short length International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Used for marking that a phone is extra short. It is alternatively also used for creating symbols for certain sounds that do not have dedicated IPA letters.[6]

Breve in Conlangs

Uses of Breve
Usage Language Creator Letters Notes
Absence of pitch accent Inng (external transcription) Qwynegold Ăă /a/, Ĕĕ /ə, i/, Ĭĭ /i/, L̆l̆ /l̩/, M̆m̆ /ŋ̍/, N̆n̆ /ŋ̍/, Ŏŏ /u, ə, a/, Ŭŭ /u/ The breve here marks that the syllable is without accent, and that the actual tone of the syllable may start at varying heights depending on the environment. (See also Dot Below for another marking of accentless syllables in Inng.) Some of these accented letters only appear as part of a digraph when representing a certain sound.[7]
Central vowel Songulda (external romanization) Qwynegold Ĭĭ /ɨ/
Non-syllabic vowel Esperanto Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof Ŭŭ /u̯/ This vowel is commonly found in the dipthongs /au̯/ and /eu̯/, but can occasionally be found in other positions too.[8] Unaccented Uu is /u/, which appears in hiatus when next to another vowel.

See Also

References

  1. See Turkish alphabet, Letters at Wikipedia for further information.
  2. Kazakh alphabets at Wikipedia.
  3. Vietnamese orthography, Pronunciation at Wikipedia.
  4. Pedersen, Thomas. 2008. Transliteration of Arabic.
  5. Hamza, Hamzat waṣl at Wikipedia.
  6. Extra-shortness at Wikipedia.
  7. Inng, Transcription at FrathWiki.
  8. Esperanto phonology at Wikipedia.