Double grave accent explained

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The double grave accent (

) is a diacritic used in scholarly discussions of the Serbo-Croatian and sometimes Slovene languages. It is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

In Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian, double grave accent is used to indicate a short falling tone, though in discussion of Slovenian, a single grave accent is also often used for this purpose. The double grave accent is found in both Latin and Cyrillic; however, it is not used in the everyday orthography of any language, only in discussions of phonology.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the double grave accent is used to indicate extra-low tone.

The letters a, e, i, o, r, u, and their Cyrillic equivalents а, е, и, о, р, and у can all be found with the double grave accent. Unicode provides precomposed characters for the uppercase and the lowercase Latin letters but not the Cyrillic letters. The Cyrillic letters can be formed using the combining character for the double grave, which is located at U+030F. The combining character can also be used with IPA vowel symbols, if necessary.

Unicode

Latin alphabet
UppercaseUnicodeLowercaseUnicode
ȀU+0200ȁU+0201
ȄU+0204ȅU+0205
ȈU+0208ȉU+0209
ȌU+020CȍU+020D
ȐU+0210ȑU+0211
ȔU+0214ȕU+0215
Cyrillic alphabet
UppercaseUnicodeLowercaseUnicode
А̏U+0410, U+030Fа̏U+0430, U+030F
Е̏U+0415, U+030Fе̏U+0435, U+030F
И̏U+0418, U+030Fи̏U+0438, U+030F
Ο̏U+041E, U+030Fо̏U+043E, U+030F
Р̏U+0420, U+030Fр̏U+0440, U+030F
У̏U+0423, U+030Fу̏U+0443, U+030F

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