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  • 1. 
    What is the English word for those two dots over a vowel?

  • Diaeresis
  • Umlaut
  • Duodenum
  • Digraph

  • 2. 
    The hacek, which adds an h-sound to whatever consonant it tops, is common to which language family?

  • Semitic
  • Khoisan
  • Slavic
  • Romance

  • 3. 
    In the phrase “not one jot or tittle,” what is a tittle?

  • A period
  • A barred o
  • The dot over a lowercase i or j
  • A mark indicating aspiration

  • 4. 
    An A with a ring above it symbolizes what unit of measure?

  • Angstrom
  • Erg
  • Millimeter
  • Ohm

  • 5. 
    Which two Romance languages use a tilde?

  • Italian and French
  • Spanish and Portuguese
  • German and Hungarian
  • French and Spanish

  • 6. 
    What’s the name of the tiny curved mark that looks like a backward c, used under a c in French?

  • A hamzah
  • A ligature
  • A cedilla
  • An ayn

  • 7. 
    Which word is another word for caret?

  • Hacek
  • Ogonek
  • Guillemet
  • Circumflex

  • 8. 
    What do you call the horizontal line placed over a vowel to indicate its length?

  • Acute
  • Edh
  • Macron
  • Breve

  • 9. 
    Vowels can be long or short, but also have an unaccented form. What is it called?

  • Monotone
  • Ligature
  • Schwa
  • Diphthong
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