diacritical
adjective/ˌdaɪəˈkrɪtɪkl/
/ˌdaɪəˈkrɪtɪkl/
(linguistics)- used to describe marks such as accents, placed over, under or through a letter in some languages, to show that the letter should be pronounced in a different way from the same letter without a mark
- diacritical marks
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