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diacritic
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diacritic

A small mark added to a letter that changes its pronunciation, such as an acute accent (á), a grave accent (à) and a cedilla (ç).



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How to get those accent marks into your correspondence .
The difference, Pacheco said, is that the tilde creates a whole new letter - and therefore a different word - while accent marks help with proper pronunciation.
Like English, these languages use the Latin alphabet, although they require certain special characters, such as letters with accent marks, umlauts or circumflexes.
 
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