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| The inverted breve is also known as an arch. Note that it may easily be confused with [[Natlang_Uses_of_Circumflex|circumflex]] ˆ. The inverted breve is not part of the orthography of any language, but it is used in linguistic materials about Serbian, Croatian and Slovene.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_breve] It was derived from the circumflex in Ancient Greek.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_breve#Serbo-Croatian]
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| == Inverted Breve in Unicode ==
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| |+ Precomposed Letters with Inverted Breve
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| | style="font-size:180%" | ◌̑ || style="font-size:180%" | Ȃ || style="font-size:180%" | ȃ || style="font-size:180%" | Ȇ || style="font-size:180%" | ȇ || style="font-size:180%" | Ȋ || style="font-size:180%" | ȋ || style="font-size:180%" | Ȏ || style="font-size:180%" | ȏ || style="font-size:180%" | Ȓ || style="font-size:180%" | ȓ || style="font-size:180%" | Ȗ || style="font-size:180%" | ȗ
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| | U+0311 || U+0202 || U+0203 || U+0206 || U+0207 || U+020A || U+020B || U+020E || U+020F || U+0212 || U+0213 || U+0216 || U+0217
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| | Combining Inverted Breve || Latin Capital Letter A With Inverted Breve || Latin Small Letter A With Inverted Breve || Latin Capital Letter E With Inverted Breve || Latin Small Letter E With Inverted Breve || Latin Capital Letter I With Inverted Breve || Latin Small Letter I With Inverted Breve || Latin Capital Letter O With Inverted Breve || Latin Small Letter O With Inverted Breve || Latin Capital Letter R With Inverted Breve || Latin Small Letter R With Inverted Breve || Latin Capital Letter U With Inverted Breve || Latin Small Letter U With Inverted Breve
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| == Natlang Examples ==
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| |+ Uses of Inverted Breve
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| ! Usage
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| ! Notes
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| | rowspan=2 | [[Wikipedia:Vowel_length|Long]] vowel with [[Wikipedia:Pitch_accent|pitch accent]]
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| | [[Wikipedia:Croatian_language|Croatian]], [[Wikipedia:Serbian_language|Serbian]]
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| | Ȃȃ /âː/, Ȇȇ /êː/, Ȋȋ /îː/, Ȏȏ /ôː/, Ȓȓ /r̩̂ː/, Ȗȗ /ûː/
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| | The inverted breve marks a long vowel with falling pitch. These letters are not used in the standard orthography of Croatian or Serbian, but in linguistic materials.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_breve#Serbo-Croatian]
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| | [[Wikipedia:Slovene_language|Slovene]] (orthography with tonal accentuation)
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| | Ȃȃ /àː/, Ȇȇ /ɛ̀ː/, Ẹ̑ẹ̑ /èː/, Ȋȋ /ìː/, Ȏȏ /ɔ̀ː/, Ọ̑ọ̑ /òː/, Ȗȗ /ùː/
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| | The inverted breve marks a long vowel with low pitch. [[Natlang_Uses_of_Circumflex|Circumflex]] may be used instead of the inverted breve. These letters are not used in the standard orthography of Slovene, but in language materials.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_language#Prosody]
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| == See Also ==
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| *[[Natlang_Uses_of_Diacritics_in_the_Latin_Alphabet|Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet]]
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| *[[Natlang_Uses_of_Breve|Natlang Uses of Breve]]
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