- 1. What is the primary function of diacritics in Latin script?
A) To serve as punctuation marks
B) To replace the alphabet entirely
C) To change the sound-values of letters
D) To identify the author of a text
- 2. Which language is noted as the only major modern European language that does not typically use diacritics?
A) Spanish
B) German
C) French
D) English
- 3. What is the origin of the word 'diacritic'?
A) Ancient Greek
B) French
C) Latin
D) Old English
- 4. In English, what was the historical purpose of the diaeresis in a word like 'coöperate'?
A) To indicate correct pronunciation
B) To mark a borrowed word
C) To denote an abbreviation
D) To distinguish between homonyms
- 5. What is the grammatical difference between 'diacritic' and 'diacritical'?
A) They are interchangeable adjectives
B) They are synonymous nouns
C) Diacritic is a noun, diacritical is an adjective
D) Diacritic is an adjective, diacritical is a noun
- 6. How are diacritics used in Vietnamese and Hanyu Pinyin?
A) To mark tones
B) To mark abbreviations
C) To mark sentence stress
D) To mark silence
- 7. What is the function of the Arabic sukūn?
A) To mark prosody
B) To mark the absence of vowels
C) To mark the presence of a long vowel
D) To distinguish homonyms
- 8. Where does the 'tittle' appear?
A) Below the letters p and q
B) Between words
C) Inside the letter o
D) Above the letters i and j
- 9. What does the dot over a consonant in Gaelic type indicate?
A) Lenition
B) Abbreviation
C) Vowel quality
D) Tonal stress
- 10. In the Wali language, where is the apostrophe placed to affect the entire word?
A) At the beginning of the word
B) Above the first vowel
C) At the end of the word
D) In the middle of the word
- 11. What is the name of the diacritic used in the word 'façade'?
A) Acute
B) Diaeresis
C) Cedilla
D) Circumflex
- 12. What are 'in-line diacritics'?
A) Punctuation marks that function as letters
B) Letters used to modify the sound of preceding letters
C) Diacritics placed between lines of text
D) Numbers used as phonetic markers
- 13. What term refers to the vertical stroke in Indic scripts that marks the absence of vowels?
A) Virama
B) Niqqud
C) Harakat
D) Titlo
- 14. In Turkish, what is the role of the tittle on the letter 'i'?
A) It is a tonal marker
B) It is an abbreviation marker
C) It is a genuine diacritic
D) It is a clarifying mark only
- 15. How are diacritics treated in collation and orthography?
A) Always as part of the base letter
B) Always as a distinct letter
C) Varies by language and case
D) Ignored in all collation systems
- 16. What does the Arabic hamza indicate?
A) A long vowel
B) A grammatical case
C) A glottal stop
D) A consonant doubling
- 17. What is another name for the superscript alif?
A) Shadda alif
B) Hamza alif
C) Dagger alif
D) Long alif
- 18. What is the phonetic value represented by the fatḥa in Arabic?
A) o
B) u
C) a
D) i
- 19. Which ḥarakāt indicates the absence of a vowel in Arabic?
A) Sukūn
B) Ḍamma
C) Kasra
D) Fatḥa
- 20. In Arabic, which case does the ḍamma represent for nouns?
A) Dative
B) Genitive
C) Accusative
D) Nominative
- 21. What is the iota subscript in Greek?
A) ◌́
B) ῾◌
C) ᾿◌
D) ◌ͺ
- 22. What does the rough breathing mark in Ancient Greek indicate?
A) Lack of aspiration
B) A long vowel
C) A nasal sound
D) Aspiration
- 23. What is the term for the smooth breathing mark in Latin?
A) Spīritus asper
B) Psilòn pneûma
C) Spīritus lēnis
D) Dasỳ pneûma
- 24. Which Hebrew diacritic is represented by a dot in the top right corner?
A) Dagesh
B) Sin dot
C) Shin dot
D) Shva
- 25. Which Arabic ḥarakāt represents the vowel 'i'?
A) Sukūn
B) Ḍamma
C) Kasra
D) Fatḥa
- 26. In Hebrew, which dot is placed at the top left corner?
A) Sin dot
B) Shin dot
C) Mappiq
D) Dagesh
- 27. What linguistic role does tanwīn serve in Arabic?
A) Grammatical
B) Stress marking
C) Aspiration
D) Pitch accent
- 28. In Syriac, what sound does a dot above and a dot below a letter represent?
A) [o]
B) [a]
C) [u]
D) [i]
- 29. What is the transliteration for the Syriac vowel sound [ɑ] represented by two diagonally-placed dots above a letter?
A) ā or â or å
B) e or ĕ
C) a or ă
D) ū or u
- 30. In the East Syriac dialect, what sound is often represented by two horizontally-placed dots below a letter?
A) [e]
B) [ɛ]
C) [ɪ]
D) [v]
- 31. Which Syriac mark represents the [dʒ] sound when placed under Gamel?
A) A circle
B) A dot
C) A semicircle
D) A tilde (~)
- 32. What does the Waw with a dot above it represent in Syriac?
A) [e]
B) [o]
C) [u]
D) [i]
- 33. A semicircle under the Syriac letter Peh represents which sound?
A) [t͡ʃ]
B) [f]
C) [p]
D) [v]
- 34. What is the name of the Devanagari moon-dot symbol used for vowel nasalization?
A) dakuten
B) chandrabindu
C) nigori
D) virama
- 35. What sound does the 'inner ring' modify [t] to in Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics?
A) [w]
B) [θ]
C) [f]
D) [p]
- 36. What is the Japanese name for the 'dot dot' symbol used to indicate voiced consonants?
A) handakuten
B) maru
C) dakuten
D) nigori
- 37. What does the 'maru' (circle) symbol in Japanese indicate?
A) Vowel nasalization
B) Consonant doubling
C) Vowel length
D) Phonetic changes
- 38. What do Hebrew and Arabic script use diacritics to indicate in addition to vowels?
A) Vowel length
B) Consonant doubling
C) W-glide
D) Final codas
- 39. How do French and Portuguese treat letters with diacritical marks during collation?
A) As symbols that are always ignored
B) As distinct letters after z
C) As combinations of vowels and e
D) As the same as the underlying letter
- 40. Where are the characters å, ä, and ö sorted in Scandinavian and Finnish languages?
A) Before a
B) Between m and n
C) Alongside the underlying vowel
D) After z
- 41. How is the combination 'aa' treated when used as an alternative spelling for å?
A) Sorted before a
B) Ignored in collation
C) Sorted as å
D) Sorted as two a's
- 42. In German dictionary sorting, which word comes first: schon or schön?
A) schon
B) They are treated as identical
C) schön
D) They are sorted randomly
- 43. What is the primary reason early binary encodings had a bias against diacritics?
A) They were only used in Asian languages
B) They were developed in English-speaking countries
C) Diacritics were considered illegal
D) Computer memory was too cheap
- 44. How many printable characters did the original ASCII standard encode?
A) 64
B) 95
C) 128
D) 256
- 45. What is the purpose of Unicode regarding character encoding?
A) Eliminating all diacritics
B) Only supporting English characters
C) Assigning every known character its own code
D) Limiting characters to 95
- 46. What are letter-with-accent combinations with unique code points called?
A) Overprinted symbols
B) Dead keys
C) Binary fragments
D) Precomposed characters
- 47. Which diacritic does Lithuanian use for the letter ė?
A) macron
B) caron
C) ogonek
D) overdot
- 48. In Welsh, which diacritic is used as a macron?
A) acute
B) circumflex
C) diaeresis
D) grave
- 49. Which language uses the cedilla in the digraph ⟨çh⟩?
A) Irish
B) Breton
C) Latvian
D) Manx
- 50. How is lenition indicated in Irish when using Roman type?
A) acute accent
B) circumflex
C) overdot
D) suffixed h
- 51. In Breton, what is the tilde used for?
A) diphthongs
B) vowel length
C) nasalization
D) plural suffixes
- 52. Which diacritic is used by Irish to mark long vowels?
A) acute
B) diaeresis
C) circumflex
D) grave
- 53. In Scottish Gaelic, which diacritic is used on all vowels?
A) circumflex
B) diaeresis
C) grave
D) acute
- 54. How many vowels does Welsh use with accents?
A) six
B) seven
C) eight
D) five
- 55. In Breton, what is the apostrophe used to distinguish?
A) vowel length
B) diphthongs
C) nasalization
D) c'h from ch
- 56. In Lithuanian, are letters with the ogonek considered separate letters?
A) only in lowercase
B) only in specific words
C) no
D) yes
- 57. Which language uses the overdot for lenition in Gaelic type?
A) Scottish Gaelic
B) Manx
C) Welsh
D) Irish
- 58. Which letter does Manx use with a cedilla?
A) h
B) s
C) c
D) t
- 59. What is the primary function of the plural suffix -où in Breton?
A) indicate pronunciation
B) mark nasalization
C) distinguish from the digraph ou
D) mark vowel length
- 60. What is the function of the acute accent in Hungarian for the vowels ⟨i⟩, ⟨o⟩, and ⟨u⟩?
A) Indicates the long form
B) Indicates a silent letter
C) Indicates a fronted vowel
D) Indicates a hiatus
- 61. Which letter does Karelian use instead of the ⟨ü⟩ found in Estonian?
A) ä
B) y
C) i
D) ö
- 62. In Dutch, what is the primary linguistic function of the two-dots diacritic?
A) Indicating long length
B) A vowel hiatus
C) Fronting of back vowels
D) Indicating a foreign origin
- 63. In the Swedish alphabet, in what order are ⟨å⟩, ⟨ä⟩, and ⟨ö⟩ collated?
A) ⟨å⟩, ⟨ä⟩, ⟨ö⟩
B) ⟨ö⟩, ⟨ä⟩, ⟨å⟩
C) ⟨å⟩, ⟨ö⟩, ⟨ä⟩
D) ⟨ä⟩, ⟨ö⟩, ⟨å⟩
- 64. Which language uses the cedilla with the letter ⟨c⟩ as in French?
A) Finnish
B) Faroese
C) Swedish
D) Dutch
- 65. How many additional vowel forms does Afrikaans use?
A) 4
B) 8
C) 16
D) 12
- 66. Which diacritic does Asturian use to mark the letters ⟨Ḷ⟩ and ⟨Ḥ⟩?
A) Circumflex
B) Acute accent
C) Underdot
D) Diaeresis
- 67. How many diacritics does French use?
A) Five
B) Three
C) Two
D) Four
- 68. How many diacritics are used in Italian?
A) Three
B) One
C) Two
D) Four
- 69. Which diacritic does Romanian use on the letter a to indicate the sound schwa /ə/?
A) Circumflex
B) Acute accent
C) Cedilla
D) Breve
- 70. Which letter does Spanish use the diaeresis on?
A) e
B) u
C) o
D) a
- 71. Which language uses the interpunct ⟨l·l⟩?
A) Romanian
B) Catalan
C) Spanish
D) Portuguese
- 72. What can Leonese use instead of ⟨ñ⟩?
A) ⟨n·n⟩
B) ⟨nh⟩
C) ⟨ny⟩
D) ⟨nn⟩
- 73. In the Czech alphabet, what diacritic is used on the letter ů?
A) The acute
B) The caron
C) The circumflex
D) The ring
- 74. Which alphabet is described as having no diacritics, using unique graphemes instead?
A) Turkish
B) Serbian Cyrillic
C) Croatian Latin
D) Slovak
- 75. Which letter does Crimean Tatar possess that Turkish does not?
A) Ä
B) Ñ
C) Ț
D) Ș
- 76. In the Turkmen alphabet, what does the ⟨Ň⟩ represent?
A) Fricative /ʃ/
B) Rounded front vowel
C) Palatal approximant /j/
D) Velar nasal /ŋ/
- 77. Which diacritic is used in Hawaiian over vowels, though its status as an individual letter is debated?
A) Kahakō (macron)
B) Diaeresis
C) Caron
D) Acute accent
- 78. What is the name of the long sign used in the Irish language?
A) Caron
B) Síneadh fada
C) Umlaut
D) Cedilla
- 79. Which language uses the grave accent to distinguish between homophones like 'of' (or) and 'òf' (either)?
A) Italian
B) French
C) Spanish
D) Afrikaans
- 80. Which language's alphabet includes ⟨ë⟩ solely to mark the schwa (/ə/)?
A) German
B) Filipino
C) Albanian
D) French
- 81. In Arabic romanization, what is the underdot typically used for?
A) Soft consonants
B) Emphatic consonants
C) Tone marking
D) Long vowels
- 82. Which diacritic is used to represent the /ʃ/ sound in many Arabic romanization systems?
A) ḥ
B) ṭ
C) š
D) ḍ
- 83. What is the name of the lossless romanization system used for Sanskrit?
A) Hanyu Pinyin
B) IAST
C) Hepburn
D) Nihon-shiki
- 84. What is the maximum number of combining diacritics mentioned as required to compose the HAKṢHMALAWARAYAṀ grapheme cluster?
A) 10
B) 8
C) 3
D) 5
- 85. What is the term for text created by decorating words with excessive nonsensical diacritics?
A) Romanized text
B) Zalgo text
C) IAST text
D) Pinyin text
- 86. In Hanyu Pinyin, which diacritic represents the third tone?
A) Caron
B) Macron
C) Grave
D) Acute
- 87. Which language uses the macron to represent the first tone in its romanization system?
A) Arabic
B) Sanskrit
C) Chinese
D) Japanese
- 88. Which diacritic is often used for the sound /ɣ/ in Arabic romanization?
A) š
B) ġ
C) ḥ
D) ṭ
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