What is the upside down V accent?

The circumflex is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes.

What alphabet does Esperanto use?

Esperanto orthography. Esperanto is written in a Latin-script alphabet of twenty-eight letters, with upper and lower case.

What is ç in Turkish?

The Turkish ç sounds like the “ch” in “chair.” The ğ, when followed by an i, sounds like “yee.”

What is the C in Curacao?

“Ç”, “ç” (cedilla) is a Latin script letter and appears in the Albanian, Azerbaijani, Ligurian, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Kurdish and Zazaki alphabets. “Ç” also appears in Catalan, French, Friulian, Occitan, and Portuguese languages as a variant of the letter “c”.

Why does Esperanto have so many accented letters?

Zamenhof’s choice of accented letters was familiar to the speakers of some Slavic languages, for instance, Czech and Slovak, where the sounds of Esperanto ĉ and ŝ are represented by the letters č and š, respectively; and Belarusian, because Esperanto ŭ bears the same relation to u as Belarusian Cyrillic ў bears to у .

Can I type Esperanto on a French typewriter?

French typewriters also include the letter ⟨ù⟩, which Francophone Esperantists have long used as a substitute for Esperanto ŭ. With the advent of personal computers, French-language keyboards still possess a dead-key ^, but whether it can be used to type Esperanto consonants may depend on the underlying software.

Is there allophony in Esperanto?

There is a nearly one-to-one correspondence of letter to sound. For those who consider /d͜z/ to be a phoneme, Esperanto contains one consonantal digraph, ⟨dz⟩. Beside the dual use of ⟨j⟩, allophony is found in place assimilation of /m/ and /n/, the latter of which for example is frequently pronounced [ ŋ] before g and k .

How to type Esperanto on MacBook Air?

On macOS systems Esperanto characters can be entered by selecting a keyboard layout from the “Input Sources” pane of “Language & Text” preferences, found in the “System Preferences” application, and the pre-installed ABC Extended keyboard layout can be used to type Esperanto’s diacritics.