Diacritics and special characters by language

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Note: this page was created with music cataloging in mind.

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 [4] from Cataloging at Yale

Language	Diacritic (and the letter(s) it affects) or special character
Albanian	acute [7]: a, e, i, o, u cedilla [8]: c circumflex [9]: a, e umlaut [10]: e
Armenian	'ayn: ch, p, k, t, ts hacek [11]: e macron [12]: e, o
Bulgarian	breve [13]: i, u canrabindu: u ligature [14]: ia, ia, iu miagkii znak [15] tverdii znak [16]
Catalan	acute [7]: a, e, i, o, u cedilla [8]: c dot at mid-line [17] grave [18]: a, e, o umlaut [10]: i, u
Croatian	acute [7]: c eth (D with bar Ð) hacek [11]: c, s, z
Czech	acute [7]: a, e, i, o, u, y circle above [19] (angstrom): u hacek [11]: c, d, D, e, n, r, s, t, T, z high comma, off center [20]: d, t
Danish	Æ [21], æ [21] circle above [19] (angstrom): a Ø [22], ø [22]
Dutch	acute [7]: a, e circumflex [9]: a, e grave [18]: e umlaut [10]: e, i
Estonian	tilde [23]: o umlaut [10]: a, o, u
Finnish	circle above [19] (angstrom): a umlaut [10]: a, o
French	acute [7]: e cedilla [8]: c circumflex [9]: a, e, i, o, u grave [18]: a, e, u OE [24], oe [24] umlaut [10]: e, i, u
German	"ess-zet" ß umlaut [10]: a, o, u
Greek (Modern)	macron [12]: e, o
Hungarian	acute [7]: a, e, i, o, u double acute [25]: o, u umlaut [10]: o, u
Icelandic	acute [7]: a, e, i, o, u, y Æ [21], æ [21] eth (D with bar Ð) OE [24], oe [24] thorn (Þ þ) umlaut [10]: o
Italian	grave [18]: a, e, i, o, u acute [7]: e
Latvian	cedilla [8]: l hacek [11]: c, s, z high comma, centered: g left hook [26]: G, k, l, n, r macron [12]: a, e, i, o, u
Lithuanian	hacek [11]: c, s, z right hook [27]: a, e, i, u macron [12]: u dot above [28]: e
Macedonian	acute [7]: g, k hacek [11]: c, s, z
Norwegian	Æ [21], æ [21] circle above [19] (angstrom): a Ø [22], ø [22] umlaut [10]: a, o
Polish	acute [7]: c, n, o, s, z Polish L [29] right hook [27]: a, e dot above [28]: z
Portuguese	acute [7]: a cedilla [8]: c, e circumflex [9]: o grave [18]: a tilde [23]: a, e, i, o, u umlaut [10]: u
Romanian	breve [13]: a circumflex [9]: a, i hacek [11]: r left hook [26]: s, t
Russian	breve [13]: i dot above [28]: e, f, y ligature [14]: ia, IA, ie, IE, iu, IU, ts, TS miagkii znak [15] tverdii znak [16] umlaut [10]: e
Slovak	acute [7]: a, e, i, l, o, r, u, y circle above [19] (angstrom): u circumflex [9]: o hacek [11]: c, d, D, e, L, n, r, s, t, T, z high comma, off center: d, l, t umlaut [10]: a
Slovene	acute [7]: a circumflex [9]: o hacek [11]: c, e, s, z
Spanish	acute [7]: a, e, i, o, u tilde [23]: n umlaut [10]: u
Swedish	circle above [19] (angstrom): a umlaut [10]: a, o
Turkish	alif [30] breve [13]: g cedilla [8]: c, s circumflex [9]: a, I, u circumflex, Turkish i (î) dot above [28]: I umlaut [10]: o, u
Ukrainian	breve [13]: i ligature [14]: ia, IA, ie, IE, iu, IU, zh, ZH miagkii znak [15] umlaut [10]: i
White Russian	breve [13]: i, u ligature [14] :ia, IA, io, IO, iu, IU miagkii znak [15] dot above [31]: e