Ogonek

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˛
Diacritical marks
designation character
Acute, simple ◌́
Acute, double ◌̋
Breve, about it ◌̆
Breve, including ◌̮
Cedilla, including ◌̧
Cedilla, about it ◌̒
Gravis, simple ◌̀
Gravis, double ◌̏
hook ◌̉
Hatschek ◌̌
horn ◌̛
Comma below ◌̦
Coronis ◌̓
Kroužek, about it ◌̊
Kroužek, including ◌̥
Macron, about it ◌̄
Macron, underneath ◌̱
Ogonek ◌̨
Period about that ◌̇
Point below ◌̣
Dash ◌̶
diacritical
slash
◌̷
Alcohol asper ◌̔
Spiritus lenis ◌̕
Tilde, about it ◌̃
Tilde, underneath ◌̰
Trema, about it ◌̈
Trema, including ◌̤
circumflex ◌̂
Ąą Ęę Įį Ǫǫ Ųų
Ogonek

The Ogonek ( Polish for little tail ) is a u. a. Diacritical mark used in the Polish and Lithuanian languages .

In Polish, it indicates the nasalization of a vowel. The Polish letters with Ogonek include “ą” and “ę”. Lithuanian "ą", "ę", "į" and "ų" only indicate an elongation of the vowel in the standard language.

The Ogonek is also used in the Alvdalian language (ą, ę, į, ų, y̨ and ą̊).

The O with Ogonek (ǫ, ǫ) is the Old Norse for marking underground vice louder used vowels and there usually - analogous to Ê - O caudata called.

Some indigenous American languages ​​also have letters with Ogonek, u. a .:

  • Navajo and Apache (ą, ąą, ę, ęę, į, įį, ǫ, ǫǫ),
  • Chiricahua and Mescalero (ą, ąą, ę, ęę, į, įį, ų, ųų),
  • Tutchone (ą, ę, į, ų, y̨),
  • Gwich'in (ą, ąą, ę, ęę, į, įį, ǫ, ǫǫ, ų, ųų)
  • Dogrib (ą, ąą, ę, ęę, į, įį, ǫ, ǫǫ)

Ogonek is also used to reproduce the Primeval Slavonic and transliterate the Old Church Slavonic .

Presentation on the computer

Character sets

The Ogonek does not appear in the ASCII character set . In the character sets of the ISO 8859 family, selected characters appear with Ogonek.

Unicode contains other pre-composed characters with Ogonek and can represent any characters with Ogonek by adding the combining Ogonek (Unicode U + 0328). (Example: m̨).

character Name, German Old code Unicode V3.2, hexadecimal HTML entity
˛ Ogonek Alt + 0731 U + 02DB ˛
Ą Large Latin letter A with Ogonek Alt + 0260 U + 0104 Ą
ą Small Latin letter a with Ogonek Alt + 0261 U + 0105 ą
Ę Large Latin letter E with Ogonek Alt + 0280 U + 0118 Ę
ę Small Latin letter e with Ogonek Alt + 0281 U + 0119 ę
Į Large Latin letter I with Ogonek Alt + 0302 U + 012E Į
į Small Latin letter i with Ogonek Alt + 0303 U + 012F į
Ǫ Large Latin letter O with Ogonek Alt + 0490 U + 01EA Ǫ
ǫ Small Latin letter o with ogonek Alt + 0491 U + 01EB ǫ
Ų Large Latin Letter U with Ogonek Alt + 0370 U + 0172 Ų
ų Small Latin letter u with Ogonek Alt + 0371 U + 0173 ų

TeX and LaTeX

TeX and LaTeX 2.09 have no command for the Ogonek. In LaTeX2e, the command \k athat generates a ą was introduced. It assumes the Cork coding .

input

With the German standard keyboard layout T2 , the character is entered as Alt Gr+ l(rule of thumb: the letter L, like the Ogonek, points down to the right). This combination acts as a dead key , i.e. H. must be entered before the basic letter.

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