Double grave accent

̏ Double grave accent
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Ȁ	ȁ
Ȅ	ȅ
Ȉ	ȉ
Ȍ	ȍ
Ȑ	ȑ
Ȕ	ȕ

The double grave accent is a diacritic used in scholarly discussions of the Serbo-Croatian and sometimes Slovene languages. It is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

In Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian, double grave accent is used to indicate a short falling tone, though in discussion of Slovenian, a single grave accent is also often used for this purpose. The double grave accent is found with both the Latin and the Cyrillic alphabet; however, it is not used in the everyday orthography of either language, but is used only in discussions of the phonology of these languages.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the double grave accent is used to indicate extra-low tone.

The letters a e i o r u and their Cyrillic equivalents а е и о р у can all be found with the double grave accent. Unicode provides precomposed characters for the upper- and lowercase Latin letters, but not the Cyrillic ones. The Cyrillic letters can be formed using the combining character for the double grave, which is located at U+030F. This combining character can also be used with IPA vowel symbols if necessary.

Latin alphabet				Cyrillic alphabet
Uppercase	Unicode	Lowercase	Unicode	Uppercase	Unicode	Lowercase	Unicode
Ȁ	U+0200	ȁ	U+0201	А̏	U+0410, U+030F	а̏	U+0430, U+030F
Ȅ	U+0204	ȅ	U+0205	Е̏	U+0415, U+030F	е̏	U+0435, U+030F
Ȉ	U+0208	ȉ	U+0209	И̏	U+0418, U+030F	и̏	U+0438, U+030F
Ȍ	U+020C	ȍ	U+020D	Ο̏	U+041E, U+030F	о̏	U+043E, U+030F
Ȑ	U+0210	ȑ	U+0211	Р̏	U+0420, U+030F	р̏	U+0440, U+030F
Ȕ	U+0214	ȕ	U+0215	У̏	U+0423, U+030F	у̏	U+0443, U+030F

See also

• Grave accent
• Double acute accent
• Inverted breve
• Izhitsa, a Cyrillic letter with a form that visually resembles a double grave accent
• International Phonetic Alphabet

References

• Carlton, Terence R. (1991). Introduction to the phonological history of the Slavic languages. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers. ISBN 0-89357-223-3. 

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