Diacritic

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The main use of diacritical marks in the Latin script is to change the sound-values
of the letters to which they are added. Examples from English are the diaereses
in naïve and Noël, which show that the vowel with the diaeresis mark is
pronounced separately from the preceding vowel; the acute and grave accents,
which can indicate that a final vowel is to be pronounced, as in saké and poetic
breathèd; and the cedilla under the "c" in the borrowed French word façade,
which shows it is pronounced /s/ rather than /k/. In other Latin alphabets, they
may distinguish between homonyms, such as the French là ("there") versus la ("the"),
which are both pronounced [la]. In Gaelic type, a dot over a consonant indicates
lenition of the consonant in question.