The double grave accent ( ̏ ) is a

diacritic A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacrit ...

used in scholarly discussions of the

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia an ...

and sometimes Slovene languages. It is also used in the

International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation ...

. In Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian, double grave accent is used to indicate a short falling tone, though in discussion of Slovenian, a single

grave accent The grave accent () ( or ) is a diacritical mark used to varying degrees in French, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian and many other western European languages, as well as for a few unusual uses in English. It is also used in other languages usin ...

is also often used for this purpose. The double grave accent is found in both

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and

Cyrillic The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...

; however, it is not used in the everyday orthography of either language, only in discussions of the

phonology Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

of these languages. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the double grave accent is used to indicate extra-low tone. The letters a e i o r u and their Cyrillic equivalents а е и о р у can all be found with the double grave accent.

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provides

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s for the uppercase and the lowercase Latin letters but not the Cyrillic letters. The Cyrillic letters can be formed using the

combining character In digital typography, combining characters are characters that are intended to modify other characters. The most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritical marks (including combining accents). Unicode al ...

for the double grave, which is located at U+030F. The combining character can also be used with IPA vowel symbols, if necessary.

Letters with double grave

Unicode

References

* Latin-script diacritics Phonetic transcription symbols Cyrillic-script diacritics {{typ-stub

Letters with double grave

Unicode

See also

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