The double acute accent ( ˝ ) is a diacritic mark of the Latin script used primarily in written Hungarian. A diacritic ( also called a diacritic or diacritical mark, point, or sign, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation The Hungarian alphabet is an extension of the Latin alphabet. Consequently, it is also known as Hungarumlaut. ^[1] The signs formed with diacritic marks count as letters of their own right in the Hungarian alphabet.

Difference between ö and ő and ü and ű respectively in Hungarian handwriting

In Hungarian

Standard Hungarian has 14 vowels in a symmetrical system: seven short vowels (a, e, i, o, ö, u, ü) and seven long ones, which are written in the case of a, e, i, o, u with an acute accent, and in the case of ö, ü with the double acute (instead of using trema+acute). A diacritic ( also called a diacritic or diacritical mark, point, or sign, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation History An early precursor of the acute accent was the apex, used in Latin inscriptions to mark long vowels. Pitch The grave accent was first used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, where it occurred only on the last syllable of a word in cases where the See also Grave accent Double acute accent International Phonetic Alphabet Length The breve sign indicates a short vowel as opposed to the Macron  ¯ which indicates long vowels in academic transcription Names Usage differs as to the name of this diacritic In the field of typography the term "caron" seems to be more popular Pitch The circumflex accent was first used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, where it occurred (subject to certain rules on the accented syllable Diaeresis or trema See also Diaeresis History Historically the diaeresis mark or trema is far older than the umlaut mark Overdot See also Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark In Arabic romanization Anusvara (Dev अनुस्वार anusvāra) is the diacritic used to mark a type of Nasalization used in a number of Indic languages. Anusvara (Dev अनुस्वार anusvāra) is the diacritic used to mark a type of Nasalization used in a number of Indic languages. This article is about chandrabindu the character in several Brahmi derived scripts See also Horn (diacritic Ɓ ɓ Ƈ ƈ Ɗ ɗ Ɠ ɠ See also Ơ Ư Hook (diacritic Acute accent Apostrophe A macron, from Greek el μακρόv ( makrón) meaning "long" is a Diacritic ¯ placed over or under a Vowel which was originally The ogonek ( Polish for "little tail" the Diminutive of ogon) is a Diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the A ring Diacritic may appear above or below letters It may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in various contexts The spiritus asper ( Latin for "rough breathing" δασὺ πνεῦμα dasỳ pneûma or daseîa) is a diacritical mark used in A bar or stroke is a modification consisting of a line drawn through a Grapheme. A comma ( ,   is a Punctuation mark It has the same shape as an Apostrophe or single closing Quotation mark in many typefaces but it differs A hyphen ( -) is a Punctuation mark It is used for both Words to join and to separate Syllables It is often confused with the dashes The tilde (~ (/ˈtɪldə/ is a Grapheme with several uses The name of the character comes from Spanish, from the Latin titulus Titlo is an extended Diacritic symbol first used in Old Cyrillic manuscripts e Hungarian ( magyar nyelv) is a Uralic language (more specifically a Ugric language) unrelated to most other languages in Europe. The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is a (eɪ plural E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled e (iː plural es or ees (also written E's E I is the ninth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its English name is i (aɪ O is the fifteenth letter of the modern Latin Alphabet. Its name in English is spelled o (oʊ plural usually o's or os; sometimes O-Umlaut The glyph O with Umlaut appears in the German alphabet. U is the twenty-first letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled u (juː Letter Ü The letter Ü occurs in Hungarian, Karelian, Turkish, Estonian, Azeri, Turkmen, Crimean History An early precursor of the acute accent was the apex, used in Latin inscriptions to mark long vowels. Diaeresis or trema See also Diaeresis History Historically the diaeresis mark or trema is far older than the umlaut mark History An early precursor of the acute accent was the apex, used in Latin inscriptions to mark long vowels. (Vowel length has phonemic significance in Hungarian, that is, it has a lexical and grammatical distinctive function. )

The double acute acts as combined acute with a diaeresis, giving the longer counterparts of ö and ü.

History

Length marks first appeared in the Hungarian orthography in the 15th century under the influence of the Hussite orthography. The Hussite Bible ( Hungarian: Huszita Biblia; sometimes also "The Bible of the Franciscans ") is the oldest known Hungarian but also Initially, only á and é were marked as these two vowels have a noticeable qualitative difference in addition to the quantitative one. Later í, ó, ú were marked as well, but up to the 18th century length marks were not used for ö and ü. In the 18th century, still before the Hungarian typography was fixed, the trema+acute form (ǘ) was used in some printed documents. Diaeresis or trema See also Diaeresis History Historically the diaeresis mark or trema is far older than the umlaut mark History An early precursor of the acute accent was the apex, used in Latin inscriptions to mark long vowels. The double-acute version was found to be a more esthetic solution and introduced by 19th century typographers.

Cyrillic alphabet

The Chuvash language written in the Cyrillic alphabet extends the basic Cyrillic alphabet by several new letters, among them the by Ӳ, ӳ which is the Cyrillic letter U with double acute accent representing the sound /y/. Chuvash (Chuvash Чӑвашла Čăvašla, ʨəʋaʂˈla also known as Chăvash, Chuwash, Chovash, Chavash, Çuvaş The Cyrillic alphabet (səˈrɪlɪk also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters is actually a family of Alphabets, subsets of which are used by U with double acute ( Majuscule: Ӳ, minuscule: ӳ) is used for the Chuvash language. U (У у is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel /u/ after non-palatalized (hard consonants The double acute accent probably found its way by analogy from Latin script languages (probably German) — cf. ger. u /u/ ~ ü /y/ to chuv. у /u/ ~ ӳ /y/^[2] — via its handwritten form^[3].

International Phonetic Alphabet

The tonal marking system in IPA (and many other phonetic alphabets) is the following (demonstrated with an 'e'):

One may encounter this use as a tone sign in some IPA-derived orthographies of small languages, such as in the North American Native Tanacross (Athapascan). The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA is a system of phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet, devised by the International Phonetic Tanacross (also Transitional Tanana) is an endangered Athabaskan language spoken by fewer than 60 persons in eastern Interior Alaska. In line with the IPA usage it denotes the extra-high tone.

Other uses

Much less significant uses of this diacritic are the following cases:

Slovak Phonetics

At the beginning of 20th century, the letter A̋ a̋ (A with double acute) has seen some marginal use as a long variant of the short vowel Ä ä (A with diaeresis), representing the vowel /æː/ in some loanwords.

This use clearly derives from the Hungarian use the double acute accent as the long counterpart of the umlaut/diaraesis, but fits well into the Slovak system, where long vowels are marked with an acute accent similarly to Hungarian and Czech.

The letter is still used for this purpose in Slovak phonetic transcription system(s).

Handwriting

In several Latin script languages where umlaut/diaraesis is used, but double acute accent is not (i. Diaeresis or trema See also Diaeresis History Historically the diaeresis mark or trema is far older than the umlaut mark e. there is no danger of mixing them up) handwriting umlaut may look like double acute accent. This is known for German, Swedish and for Faroese (when Swedish-style ö is replaced for Norwegian-Danish-style (official) ø). The German Alphabet consists of the same 26 letters as the modern Roman alphabet: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r The Swedish Alphabet consists of the following 29 letters Upper Case A, B, C, D, E, F The Faroese alphabet consists of 29 letters derived from the Latin alphabet: See also Alphabets derived from the Latin

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ISO 8859-2

In ISO 8859-2 Ő, ő, Ű, ű take the place of some similar looking (but distinct, especially at bigger font sizes) letters of ISO 8859-1.

Unicode

All occurrences of "double acute" in the Unicode 4. 1 standard:

Note, that the last entry is unrelated to the others above, and got its name purely by analogy of its shape.

LaTeX Input

In LaTeX, the double acute accent is typeset with the \H{} (mnemonic for Hungarian) command. LaTeX (ˈleɪtɛ A mnemonic device (nəˈmɒnɪk is a Memory aid Commonly met mnemonics are often verbal something such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember For example, the name Paul Erdős would be typeset as

Paul Erd\H{o}s. Paul Erdős ( Hungarian: Erdős Pál, in English occasionally Paul Erdos or Paul Erdös, March 26, 1913 &ndash 

X11 Input

In modern X11 system, the double acute can be typed by pressing the Compose key followed by = (the equal sign) and desired letter (o or u).

See also

• Hungarian alphabet
• Acute accent
• Double grave accent
• Umlaut/Diaeresis

Footnotes

External links

• Diacritics Project — All you need to design a font with correct accents (contains some incorrect/sloppy data on history)