Dot (diacritic)
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| Diacritical marks |
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accent
breve ( ˘ )
hook / dấu hỏi ( ̉ ) |
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apostrophe ( ’ ) |
When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot is usually reserved for the Interpunct (·), or to the glyphs 'combining dot above' ( ̇) and 'combining dot below' ( ̣) which may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in use in Eastern European languages and Vietnamese.
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Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot as a diacritic mark:
- In IAST and National Library at Calcutta romanization, transcribing Indic languages, a dot below a letter indicates retroflex consonants, while an underdot signifies an emphatic consonant.
- Traditional Irish typography, where the dot denotes lenition, and is called a ponc séimhithe 'dot of lenition': ḃ ċ ḋ ḟ ġ ṁ ṗ ṡ ṫ
- Lithuanian: ė
- Maltese: ċ ġ ż
- Polish: ż
- In romanizations of Semitic languages, a dot below a consonant is used to indicate the "emphatic version" of that consonant. For example, ṣ represents an emphatic s. In Arabic romanization in particular, ġ stands for the ghayin.
- The dot above lowercase i and j (and uppercase İ in Turkish) is not regarded as an independent diacritic, but rather as an integral part of the letter.
- Vietnamese. The nặng tone (low, glottal) is represented with a dot below the base vowel: ạ ặ ậ ẹ ệ ị ọ ộ ợ ụ ự ỵ.
- In Yoruba, the dot is used below the o, the e and the s: those three letters can also occur without dot as another letter.
In mathematics and physics the dot denotes the time derivative as in 
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