Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com FM 34-54 DIACRITICS WRITTEN ABOVE THE LETTER grave: French, Italian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, e.g., >acute: Croatian, Czech, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish C, Z>, Slovak, Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese; e.g., circumflex: French, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian, Vietnamese, Turkish, e.g., ф> hacek: Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian ,Slovak, Slovenian, e.g., , > breve: Rumanian, Turkish, Vietnamese; e.g., , > > macron: Latvian, Lithuanian; e.g., , > tilde: Estonian, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese; e.g., > krouzek: Czech, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish; e.g., O dot: Lithuanian , Polish, Turkish, e.g., , > u > dieresis:
Albanian, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Slovak, Portuguese , Spanish, Swedish, Turkish; e.g., double acute: Hungarian; e.g., , > apostrophe: Czech, French, Slovak; e.g., , > question: Vietnamese; e.g., { > back apostrophe: Latvian; e.g., DIACRITICS WRITTEN IN (OR TOUCHING) THE LETTER bar: Croatian, Polish, Vietnamese; e.g., slash: Danish, Norwegian, Polish; e.g., » > horn: Vietnamese; e.g., , х> DIACRITICS WRITTEN UNDER THE SEAT > cedilla: Albanian, French, Portuguese, Turkish, e.g., O > ogonek: Lithuanian comma: Latvian, Rumanian; e.g., low dot: Vietnamese; e.g., Figure G-3. The occurrence of diacritics in various languages. FRENCH:
French is generally easiest to recognize because it is so familiar and has so many words in common with English. French uses acute > and grave on . Acute is not used on any other letters, but grave is used occasionally on and . Circumflex is used on and cedilla > is used under . The French commonly omit diacritics over capital letters and in typescript. Definite article forms: le, la, les. French also uses a trлma . G-5 DISTINGUISHING FRENCH, GERMAN, AND DUTCH