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A breve ( is short.) It looks similar to Caron or háček, but the caron has a sharp tip, whilst the breve is rounded. Compare Ǎ ǎ Ě ě Ǐ ǐ Ǒ ǒ Ǔ ǔ (caron) with Ă ă Ĕ ĕ Ĭ ĭ Ŏ ŏ Ŭ ŭ (breve). In the Cyrillic Alphabet , a breve is used for Й (short I). In Belarusian , it is used for both the Cyrillic Ў (U short) and Latin ( Łacinka ) Ŭ. Ў was also used in Cyrillic Uzbek under the Soviet Union . In the Chuvash a breve is used for Cyrillic letters (A-breve) and (Ye-breve). In other languages, it is used for other purposes. In Romanian it is used above the A to represent the Schwa (ə) vowel, as in ''măr'' (apple). In Esperanto it can be used above the U to form a non-syllabic U, similar to English W in sound. G-breve appears in the Azerbaijani , Tatar , and Turkish alphabets. In Turkish, Ğ/ğ lengthens the preceding vowel. It is thus placed between two vowels and is silent in standard Turkish, but may be pronounced as /g/ in some regional dialects or varieties closer to Ottoman Turkish . Breve, together with Circumflex and Horn , are used in the Vietnamese Language to represent additional vowels. Interlingua has no diacritical marks, so the breve appears only in an occasional loanword. Note that Pinyin uses the Caron , not the breve, to indicate the third Tone of Mandarin Chinese . The McCune-Reischauer Romanization of the Korean Hangul script uses breves, not carons, over o and u to indicate the vowels ㅓ (ŏ) and ㅡ (ŭ).For example, that word 한글 han-geul is Romanized in McCune-Reischauer as ''han'gŭl''.The spelling ''han-geul'' is based on South Korea 's Revised Romanization Of Korean adopted in 2000 in part for ease in computer use, not on McCune-Reischauer . It is common, for convenience, to omit writing all diacritical marks in McCune Reishchauer including breves, in which case the word is spelled ''hangul'' not ''han'gŭl''. North Korea uses a variant of McCune-Reischauer that also utilizes breves for those two vowels. ENCODING BREVES Unicode and HTML Numeric Entities for breve letters NOTES SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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