KnowraDiacriticLinked fromLinked fromThe 12 pages that link to Diacritic, each with the reason it gives.All 12Broader topic 1Related 10Compared with 1OrthographyRelated: Orthographies differ in whether and how they use marks such as accents and tildes.AbjadRelated: Secondary vowel marks can supplement an abjad's consonant letters.AbugidaRelated: Vowel diacritics commonly modify the inherent vowel without replacing the consonant letter.RomanizationRelated: Diacritics let romanization distinguish sounds that plain Latin letters cannot represent reliably.Phonetic transcriptionRelated: IPA diacritics capture articulatory details beyond a symbol's basic sound value.TransliterationRelated: Diacritics preserve distinctions that the target alphabet may otherwise lack.Latin scriptRelated: Many languages extend Latin letters with marks such as accents and cedillas.NastaliqRelated: Dots and other marks must remain legible among Nastaliq's overlapping forms.Spelling reformRelated: Reformers may add or repurpose marks to distinguish sounds that ordinary letters leave ambiguous.History of the alphabetRelated: Diacritics let alphabets represent sound distinctions without adding entirely new base letters.