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accent acute accent ( ˊ ) double acute accent ( ˝ ) grave accent ( ˋ ) breve ( ˘ ) caron / háček ( ˇ ) cedilla ( ¸ ) circumflex ( ˆ ) diaeresis ( Including:

• Cedilla - Use of the cedilla with the letter C
• Cedilla - Use of the cedilla with the letter S
• Cedilla - Use of the cedilla in Latvian
• Cedilla - Prospective use of the cedilla with the letter T
• Cedilla - Other diacritical marks confused with the cedilla

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accent acute accent ( ˊ ) double acute accent ( ˝ ) grave accent ( ˋ ) breve ( ˘ ) caron / háček ( ˇ ) cedilla ( ¸ ) circumflex ( ˆ ) diaeresis ( Including:

• Caron - Usage
• Caron - Writing and printing carons
• Caron - List of letters
• Caron - Other uses
• Caron - Software
• Caron - Unicode
• Caron - TeX
• Caron - Macintosh
• Caron - Microsoft Word
• Caron - XFree86

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Odin is considered the highest god in Norse mythology and Norse paganism. His role, like many of the Norse pantheon, is complex: he is god of both wisdom and war. He is also attested as being a god of magic, poetry, victory, and the hunt. His name is, in Old Norse, Óðinn. Although its precise meaning is debated, the name is thought to be related to the word óðr, meaning "excitation" or "fury". Worship of Odin dates to Proto-Germanic paganism, and the names Old English (and Old Saxon) Wōden; Old ...

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• Odin - Etymology
• Odin - General characteristics
• Odin - Odin and Mercury
• Odin - Celtic parallels
• Odin - Eddaic Odin
• Odin - Attributes
• Odin - Names
• Odin - Anglo-Saxon Woden
• Odin - Worship
• Odin - Sacrifices
• Odin - Shamanic traits
• Odin - Odin and Jesus
• Odin - Medieval reception
• Odin - Persisting beliefs in Odin
• Odin - Modern age
• Odin - Notes
• Odin - Literature

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Including:

• Wade-Giles - History
• Wade-Giles - One symbol-multiple sounds
• Wade-Giles - One sound-multiple symbols
• Wade-Giles - Precision with empty rime
• Wade-Giles - Partial interchangeability of uo and e with o
• Wade-Giles - Punctuation
• Wade-Giles - Other differences with Pinyin
• Wade-Giles - Influences

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The Wulfings or Wylfings (the name means the "wolf clan") was a prominent family/clan in Beowulf and Widsith. According to one theory (Newton 1993), the East Anglian Wuffing dynasty was derived from the Wulfings, and it was at their court that Beowulf was first composed. The Old Norse form of this name is Ylfing 1, and a powerful Scandinavian clan by that name figures prominently in the Heimskringla and in Sögubrot, where ...

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• Wulfing - Norse sagas
• Wulfing - Beowulf
• Wulfing - Known Wulfings
• Wulfing - Footnotes
• Wulfing - Primary sources
• Wulfing - Secondary sources

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Yo (Ё, ё) is the seventh letter of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, invented to replace the recklessly confused е and o for soft o relatively soon after the introduction of the Civil Alphabet (the Grazhdanka). It is used in the Russian and Belarusian languages, along with many of the Caucasian and Turkic languages which use or used the Cyrillic alphabet, but not in many of the other Slavic languages. It is spoken as an iotated or palatalized O ("yo", IPA [jo] ...

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• Pinyin - Pronunciation
• Pinyin - Initials
• Pinyin - Finals
• Pinyin - Rules given in terms of English pronunciation
• Pinyin - Pronunciation of initials
• Pinyin - Pronunciation of finals
• Pinyin - Orthographic features
• Pinyin - Tones
• Pinyin - Rules for placing the tone mark
• Pinyin - Miscellanea
• Pinyin - Pinyin in Taiwan
• Pinyin - Other languages
• Pinyin - Controversy
• Pinyin - Accessibility note

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The glyph ß is a ligature of ſ (long s) and s or z that has become a distinct letter in the German alphabet; its German name is Eszett (IPA /ɛsˈtsɛt/) or scharfes S (sharp S). In German orthography, the letter alternates with ss under certain conditions, and it is replaced by ss when there is no ß available. ß is nearly unique among the letters of Latin alphabet in that it has no upper case form since it never oc ...

Including:

• ß - Origin
• ß - Usage
• ß - Substitution and all caps
• ß - Switzerland and Liechtenstein
• ß - Older usages
• ß - ß and β
• ß - Miscellaneous
• ß - Links

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An analytic language (or isolating language) is a language in which the vast majority of morphemes are free morphemes and considered to be full-fledged "words". By contrast, in a synthetic language, a word is composed of agglutinated or fused morphemes that denote its syntactic meanings. Analytic language - Features of analytic languages. Analytic languages often express abstract concepts using independent words, while synthetic languages tend to use adpositions, affixes and internal modifica ...

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• Analytic language - Features of analytic languages

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In linguistics, apophony (also ablaut, gradation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation, replacive morphology, stem mutation, internal inflection) is the alternation of sounds within a word that indicates grammatical information (often inflectional). Apophony - Description. Apophony is exemplified in English as the internal vowel alternations that produce such related words as siIncluding:

• Apophony - Description
• Apophony - Types of apophony
• Apophony - Vowel apophony ablaut
• Apophony - Prosodic apophony
• Apophony - Consonant apophony mutation
• Apophony - Vowel alternation in Indo-European
• Apophony - Apophony vs. transfixation root-and-pattern
• Apophony - Replacive morphemes & apophony
• Apophony - Ablaut vs. umlaut
• Apophony - Ablaut-motivated compounding
• Apophony - Bibliography

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Vowel harmony (also metaphony) is a type of long-distance assimilatory phonological process involving vowels. Vowel harmony - Explanation. Harmony processes are "long-distance" in the sense that the assimilation involves sounds that are separated by intervening segments (usually consonant segments). In other words, harmony refers to the assimilation of sounds that are not adjacent to each other. For example, a vowel at the beginning of word can trigger assimilation in a vowel at ...

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• Vowel harmony - Explanation
• Vowel harmony - Features of vowel harmony
• Vowel harmony - Vowel harmony & umlaut terminology
• Vowel harmony - Vowel harmony archiphonemes and underspecification
• Vowel harmony - Examples in selected languages
• Vowel harmony - Uralic languages
• Vowel harmony - Altaic languages
• Vowel harmony - Yokuts
• Vowel harmony - Korean
• Vowel harmony - Japanese
• Vowel harmony - Other languages
• Vowel harmony - Other types of harmony
• Vowel harmony - Vowel-consonant harmony
• Vowel harmony - Links
• Vowel harmony - Bibliography

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accent acute accent ( ˊ ) double acute accent ( ˝ ) grave accent ( ˋ ) breve ( ˘ ) caron / háček ( ˇ ) cedilla ( ¸ ) circumflex ( ˆ ) diaeresis ( Including:

• Diaeresis - Usage
• Diaeresis - Similar looks different functions
• Diaeresis - Umlaut
• Diaeresis - Other evolved ligatures
• Diaeresis - Diaeresis in Cyrillic
• Diaeresis - How to produce the characters on computers
• Diaeresis - Time derivatives in mathematics

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Yiddish (Yid. ייִדיש, yidiš) is a Germanic language spoken by about three million people throughout the world, predominantly Ashkenazic Jews. The name Yiddish itself is Yiddish for "Jewish" (compare German jüdisch) and is likely an abbreviated rendition of yidish-taytsh (ייִדיש־טײַטש), or "Jewish German". In its earliest historical phase (13th-14th centuries), Yiddish is referred to by linguists as Judeo-German; occasionally this term is used for later forms of the language as wel ...

Including:

• Yiddish language - History
• Yiddish language - From Judeo-German to Old Yiddish
• Yiddish language - The modern Haskalah
• Yiddish language - The 20th century
• Yiddish language - Haredi Orthodox Jews
• Yiddish language - Haredi educational use of Yiddish
• Yiddish language - Status of Yiddish as a Germanic language
• Yiddish language - Yiddish and other languages
• Yiddish language - Phonology
• Yiddish language - Consonants
• Yiddish language - Vowels
• Yiddish language - Orthography
• Yiddish language - Typography
• Yiddish language - Morphology
• Yiddish language - Yiddish words and phrases used by English speakers
• Yiddish language - Books

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Boötes, a name deriving from Egypt, is one of the 88 modern constellations and was also one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy. Boötes is generally referred to as the Bear Watcher, since it appears to be watching over the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. It contains the third brightest star in the night sky, Arcturus. Note that the "ö" in the name is a diaeresis, not an umlaut. The constellation is located between 0° and +60° declination, 13 and 16 hours of right ascension on the celestial sphere. Including:

• Boötes - Notable features
• Boötes - Notable deep sky objects
• Boötes - Mythology
• Boötes - Stars

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Blue Öyster Cult is a psychedelic/heavy metal band probably best known for two songs: their 1976 single "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" from the album Agents of Fortune, and their 1981 single "Burnin' for You" from the album Fire of Unknown Origin. Their song "Veteran of the Psychic Wars," with lyrics penned by Michael Moorcock, appeared in the soundtrack of the movie Heavy Metal. Two other well-known songs are "Godzilla" (1977) from Spectres, and "Astronomy" (1973) from Secret Treaties; the latte ...

Including:

• Blue Öyster Cult - Lineup
• Blue Öyster Cult - Former Members
• Blue Öyster Cult - Bass
• Blue Öyster Cult - Drums
• Blue Öyster Cult - Keyboards
• Blue Öyster Cult - Vocals
• Blue Öyster Cult - Donald Roeser Buck Dharma
• Blue Öyster Cult - Joe Bouchard
• Blue Öyster Cult - Albert Bouchard
• Blue Öyster Cult - Allen Lanier
• Blue Öyster Cult - Jon Rogers
• Blue Öyster Cult - Joey Cerisano
• Blue Öyster Cult - Cowbell
• Blue Öyster Cult - Discography

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accent acute accent ( ˊ ) double acute accent ( ˝ ) grave accent ( ˋ ) breve ( ˘ ) caron / háček ( ˇ ) cedilla ( ¸ ) circumflex ( ˆ ) diaeresis ( ¨ ) ...

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Zürich ▶ (help·info) (German pronunciation IPA: [ˈtsyrɪç]; in English often Zurich, without the umlaut) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. The city is Switzerland's main commercial centre. It is also home of the Cabaret V ...

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• Zürich - Geography
• Zürich - History
• Zürich - Coat of arms
• Zürich - Industry and commerce
• Zürich - Education and research
• Zürich - Sports
• Zürich - Events
• Zürich - Transportation
• Zürich - Notable people
• Zürich - Hotels

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accent acute accent ( ˊ ) double acute accent ( ˝ ) grave accent ( ˋ ) breve ( ˘ ) caron / háček ( ˇ ) cedilla ( ¸ ) circumflex ( ˆ ) diaeresis ( ¨ ) ...

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"Ü", or "ü", is a glyph which represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, the letter U with umlaut, or a letter U with diaeresis. Ü - Letter Ü. The letter Ü occurs in the Estonian, Hungarian, Turkish, Azeri, Turkmen, Tatar Latin alphabet alphabets, where it represents a front rounded high vowel (/y/). This same letter appears in the Chinese romanizations pinyin, Wade-Giles, and the German-based Lessing-Othmer, where it represents the same sound: ...

Including:

• Ü - Letter Ü
• Ü - U-umlaut
• Ü - U diaeresis
• Ü - Typography

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In Terry Pratchett's fictional Discworld universe, Überwald is a region on the other side of the Ramtops from Lancre and Ankh-Morpork. The area itself is huge and contains most of the land on the northern side of the Ramtops. Its name is German for across the woods, as a play on Transylvania, which is Latin for the same. In fact, this name was actually used for Transylvania in some documents from the 13th century. The region is based less on the real Eastern Europe, and more on the Hammer Horror stereotype ...

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• Überwald - Notable locations
• Überwald - Discworld appearances

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