diacritic in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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In orthography and collation, a letter modified by a diacritic may be treated either as a new, distinct letter or as a letterdiacritic combination.
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The only exception to this rule is "noonu" which, when written without a diacritic, indicates prenasalisation of a following stop.
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The others are used with consonants and vowels, and are marked with iconic diacritics under the letter.
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On the second line, the base letters should at least render correctly even if the combining diacritics could not be recognized.
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The search algorithms are tolerant of capitalisation, minor misspelling, and omitted accents and diacritics.
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Diacritics used by other languages include a circle above, two dots before, and a variety of other marks.
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In other cases, such as the ring for voiceless, a diacritic may superscript or subscript with no change in meaning.
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Technically, hamze is not a letter but a diacritic.
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Also, when no diacritic is used, an inherent vowel, either or, is understood, depending on the position of the consonant within the word.
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It is the asteroid with the most diacritics in its name.
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