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Ċ	ċ
Ė	ė
Ġ	ġ
İ
Ż	ż

Ạ	ạ
Ẹ	ẹ
Ị	ị
Ọ	ọ
Ụ	ụ
Ỵ	ỵ

When used as a diacritic mark, the term 'dot' is usually reserved for the ''Interpunct'' ( · ), or to the glyphs 'combining dot above' ( ) and 'combining dot below' ( ) which may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in use in Central European languages and Vietnamese.

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Overdot

Underdot

Technical notes

See also

External links

Overdot

Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot as a diacritic mark:

★ In Arabic romanization, '' stands for the letter ''ghayin''.

★ Traditional Irish typography, where the dot denotes lenition, and is called a ''ponc séimhithe'' or ''Builte'' "dot of lenition": ''. Alternatively, lenition may be represented by a following letter ''h'', thus: ''bh ch dh fh gh mh ph st th''. In Old Irish orthography, the dot was used only for '', while the following ''h'' was used for ''ch ph th''; lenition of other letters was not indicated. Later the two systems spread to the entire set of lenitable consonants and competed with each other. Eventually the standard practice was to use the dot when writing in Gaelic script and the following ''h'' when writing in antiqua. Thus ''ċ'' and ''ch'' represent the same phonetic element in Modern Irish.

★ Lithuanian: ''ė''

★ Maltese: ''ċ ġ ż''

★ Polish: ''ż''

★ The dot above lowercase ''i'' and ''j'' (and uppercase ''İ'' in Turkish) is not regarded as an independent diacritic, but rather as an integral part of the letter. It is called a tittle.
The overdot is also used in the Devanagari script, where it is called ''anusvara''.
In mathematics and physics the dot denotes the time derivative as in $v=dot\{x\}$.

Underdot

★ In IAST and National Library at Calcutta romanization, transcribing Indic languages, a dot below a letter indicates retroflex consonants, while an underdot signifies an emphatic consonant.

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★ In romanizations of Semitic languages, a dot below a consonant is used to indicate emphatic consonants. For example, '' represents an emphatic ''s''.

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★ Vietnamese. The ''nặng'' tone (low, glottal) is represented with a dot below the base vowel: ''ạ ặ ậ ẹ ệ ị ọ ộ ợ ụ ự ỵ''.

★ In Yoruba, the dot is used below the ''o'', the ''e'' and the ''s'': those three letters can also occur without dot as another letter.
The underdot is also used in the Devanagari script, where it is called ''anunaasika''.

Technical notes

The 'Overdot diacritic' (Unicode combining diacritic "combining dot above" U+0307  ̇).
Precomposed characters:
Ȧ, Ḃ, Ċ, Ḋ, Ė, Ḟ, Ġ, Ḣ, İ, Ṁ, Ṅ, Ȯ, Ṗ, Ṙ, Ṡ, Ṫ, Ẇ, Ẋ, Ẏ, Ż.

See also

★ Ȧ

★ Chandrabindu

★ Tittle

★ Turkish dotted and dotless I

External links

★ Diacritics Project — All you need to design a font with correct accents