Talk:Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet

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I am gonna invite people to add more languages to this article once I have everything set up, and I'm grateful for everyone who wants to help. But people please, don't do any changes while WIP sign is still up.
Qwynegold 14:55, 18 January 2013 (PST)

I moved all the sections into their own articles instead. Please refrain from editing them until I have removed the WIP sign from this page.
Qwynegold 14:50, 19 January 2013 (PST)

Layout Guidelines

This article should only list diacritics in the Latin alphabet, used in present or obsolete natlang orthographies or transliteration of orthographies, such as Pinyin for Chinese or Hepburn for Japanese. Links to every diacritic should have been made, although some of those pages have not yet been written. I have included acute accent below ˏ, grave accent below ˎ, and comma above right ◌̕, although I'm not sure if they are used in any natlangs or romanizations. I am also unsure about double low line ◌̳, double overline ◌̿, double macron ◌͞◌, double macron below ◌͟◌, and double tilde ◌͠◌, but I have not included those. One should know that it can be surprising which diacritics are actually used in natlangs sometimes. For example low line below ◌̲ is allegedly used in some African and Native American languages,[1] even though it and related characters are mostly only used in typesetting.[2]

The Unicode Table

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Precomposed Letters with ***
| style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" | 
|-
| U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+
|-
| Latin Capital Letter  || Latin Small Letter  || Latin Capital Letter  || Latin Small Letter  || Latin Capital Letter  || Latin Small Letter  || Latin Capital Letter  || Latin Small Letter  || Latin Capital Letter  || Latin Small Letter  || Latin Capital Letter  || Latin Small Letter  || Latin Capital Letter 
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| style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" |  || style="font-size:180%" | 
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| U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+ || U+
|-
| Latin Small Letter  || Latin Capital Letter  || Latin Small Letter  || Latin Capital Letter  || Latin Small Letter  || Latin Capital Letter  || Latin Small Letter  || Latin Capital Letter  || Latin Small Letter  || Latin Capital Letter  || Latin Small Letter  || Latin Capital Letter  || Latin Small Letter 
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|}

Above is a template for the Unicode table.

The Natlang Example Table

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Uses of ***
! Usage
! Language
! Letters
! Notes
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