Definitions
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- noun orthography : A
hook -shapeddiacritical mark attached underneath avowel , typically to indicatenasalization , as inĄą ,Ęę ,Įį ,Ǫǫ orŲų .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1979, however, two things happened almost simultaneously – a Polish Pope was elected: John Paul II, whose Polish family name included the barred l – Wojtyła, and the Solidarity movement was constantly in the news, led by a man whose name not only included a barred l, but also an ogonek reverse cedilla under a vowel letter, indicating that it is a nasalised vowel: Lech Wałęsa.
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Note that the Kazakh-Cyrillic alphabet has two k's, one identical to the Russian k, the other a k with a cédille/ogonek.
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The name of Czech composer František Ignác Antonín Tůma (1704-1774) makes one immediately think, "What, no umlaut, macron, or ogonek?"
Ionarts 2009
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(like ogonek, cyracc) and possibly some indirectly necessary things that you'll probably know about them if you use them.
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(like ogonek, cyracc) and possibly some indirectly necessary things that you'll probably know about them if you use them.
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(like ogonek, cyracc) and possibly some indirectly necessary things that you'll probably know about them if you use them.
treeseed commented on the word ogonek
Ogonek (like a backwards cedilla, on the lower-right of a character). Used in Polish on the letters `a' and `e' to change their quality and nasalise them. - Everything.com
April 30, 2008