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These are diacritics and special characters in languages encountered in music cataloging at Yale, as mapped for Orbis (Voyager). Not all diacritics are included, namely those for languages in which we do not catalog. For a complete list, see Diacritics and special characters from Cataloging at Yale
Albanian | Armenian | Bulgarian | Catalan | Croatia | Czech | Danish | Dutch | Estonian | Finnish | French | German | Greek (Modern) | Hungarian | Icelandic | Italian | Latvian | Lithuanian | Macedonian | Norwegian | Polish | Portuguese | Romanian | Russian | Slovak | Slovene | Spanish | Swedish | Turkish | Ukrainian | White Russian
| Language | Diacritic (and the letter(s) it affects) or special character |
| Albanian | acute: a, e, i, o, u cedilla: c circumflex: a, e umlaut: e |
| Armenian | 'ayn: ch, p, k, t, ts hacek: e macron: e, o |
| Bulgarian | breve: i, u canrabindu: u ligature: ia, ia, iu miagkii znak tverdii znak |
| Catalan | acute: a, e, i, o, u cedilla: c dot at mid-line grave: a, e, o umlaut: i, u |
| Croatian | acute: c eth (D with bar Ð) hacek: c, s, z |
| Czech | acute: a, e, i, o, u, y circle above (angstrom): u hacek: c, d, D, e, n, r, s, t, T, z high comma, off center: d, t |
| Danish | Æ, æ circle above (angstrom): a Ø, ø |
| Dutch | acute: a, e circumflex: a, e grave: e umlaut: e, i |
| Estonian | tilde: o umlaut: a, o, u |
| Finnish | circle above (angstrom): a umlaut: a, o |
| French | acute: e cedilla: c circumflex: a, e, i, o, u grave: a, e, u OE, oe umlaut: e, i, u |
| German | "ess-zet" ß umlaut: a, o, u |
| Greek (Modern) | macron: e, o |
| Hungarian | acute: a, e, i, o, u double acute: o, u umlaut: o, u |
| Icelandic | acute: a, e, i, o, u, y Æ, æ eth (D with bar Ð) OE, oe thorn (Þ þ) umlaut: o |
| Italian | grave: a, e, i, o, u acute: e |
| Latvian | cedilla: l hacek: c, s, z high comma, centered: g left hook: G, k, l, n, r macron: a, e, i, o, u |
| Lithuanian | hacek: c, s, z right hook: a, e, i, u macron: u dot above: e |
| Macedonian | acute: g, k hacek: c, s, z |
| Norwegian | Æ, æ circle above (angstrom): a Ø, ø umlaut: a, o |
| Polish | acute: c, n, o, s, z Polish L right hook: a, e dot above: z |
| Portuguese | acute: a cedilla: c, e circumflex: o grave: a tilde: a, e, i, o, u umlaut: u |
| Romanian | breve: a circumflex: a, i hacek: r left hook: s, t |
| Russian | breve: i dot above: e, f, y ligature: ia, IA, ie, IE, iu, IU, ts, TS miagkii znak tverdii znak umlaut: e |
| Slovak | acute: a, e, i, l, o, r, u, y circle above (angstrom): u circumflex: o hacek: c, d, D, e, L, n, r, s, t, T, z high comma, off center: d, l, t umlaut: a |
| Slovene | acute: a circumflex: o hacek: c, e, s, z |
| Spanish | acute: a, e, i, o, u tilde: n umlaut: u |
| Swedish | circle above (angstrom): a umlaut: a, o |
| Turkish | alif breve: g cedilla: c, s circumflex: a, I, u circumflex, Turkish i (î) dot above: I umlaut: o, u |
| Ukrainian | breve: i ligature: ia, IA, ie, IE, iu, IU, zh, ZH miagkii znak umlaut: i |
| White Russian | breve: i, u ligature :ia, IA, io, IO, iu, IU miagkii znak dot above: e |