This article is about the breve as a diacritical mark. For a breve in music, see double whole note.
A breve ( LatinAlternative meanings: See Latin (disambiguation Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and ma Brevis "short, brief")
is a diacriticA diacritic mark or accent mark is an additional mark added to a basic letter. The word derives from Greek , distinguishing and diacritical is used to mean distinguishing or distinctive. The mark can be added over, under, or through the letter. But not alal mark ˘, shaped like a little round cup, designed to indicate a short vowel, as opposed to the macronA macron (from Gr. mu;ακρς makros "large") is a diacritic ¯ placed over a vowel originally to indicate that the vowel is long. The opposite is a breve , used to indicate a short vowel. These distinctions are usually phonemic. In Old ¯ which indicates long vowels. It is used this way in dictionaries and textbooks of Latin and some other languages. It looks similar to caron or hácekHACEK organisms are a subgroup of bacteria. A hacek ("", pronounced /hak/), also known as a caron is a diacritic placed over certain letters to indicate palatalization or jotation in the orthography of some Slavic and Baltic languages. It looks similar to, but the caron has a sharp tip, whilst the breve is rounded.
In the Cyrillic alphabetThe Cyrillic alphabet is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages ( Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. The plan of the alphabet is, a breve is used for short I (short I). In Belarusian, it is used for both the Cyrillic U short (U short) and Latin ( Lacinka) U. Ў was also used in Cyrillic Uzbek under the Soviet Union. In the Chuvash a breve is used for Cyrillic letters Ӑ (A-breve) and Ӗ (Ye-breve).
In other languages, it is used for other purposes. In Romanian it can be used above the A to form the schwa () vowel and in Esperanto it can be used above the U.
Breve together with acute, grave, circumflex, horn, tilde, and dot are used in the Vietnamese language.
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