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Subject: Re: Diacritic symbol names
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In article <384b9p$g1v@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>,
Hung Jung Lu <hlu@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
>What's the name of the semi-circle opened upwards that one
>finds over the Turkish g (yamushak ge) and the Vietnamese
>vowel a? In what other languages is it used? Over what
>letters? (this semi-circle is different from the wedge
>that goes over some Slavic languages' c) 
>(This symbol can be generated in LaTeX with the command
>\u{g} for the Turkish g and \u{a} for the Vietnamese a.)
>
>Are there well-established names for diacritic symbols?
>(At least "tilde" seem to be widely used name for a 
>particular diacritic symbol ~ . Hat as in ^ is also a relatively
>common name. "Umlaut" is understood at least in English and German
>as the little two dots over u.)
>Is there any reference for the names?
>
>-- Ekki
>

Breve, /brEv/ - used in some US dictionaries over the vowels of hat, pet, hit,
hot, and hut in the pronunciation guides.
