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Diacritic vs Nuqta - What's the difference?

diacritic | nuqta |

As nouns the difference between diacritic and nuqta

is that diacritic is a special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning while nuqta is a diacritic used in the devanagari script to describe modern sounds borrowed from languages not native to devanagari, mainly urdu (arabic, farsi) and english.

As an adjective diacritic

is distinguishing.

diacritic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • distinguishing
  • (orthography, not comparable) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.

    • Synonyms

    * diacritical

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.

    • Synonyms

    * accent * diacritical mark

    Derived terms

    * diacritical

    Hyponyms

    * cedilla * diaeresis * * tilde * umlaut

    See also

    * ("diacritic" on Wikipedia)

    External links

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    nuqta

    English

    Noun

    (nuqta)
  • A diacritic used in the Devanagari script to describe modern sounds borrowed from languages not native to Devanagari, mainly Urdu (Arabic, Farsi) and English.

    • See also

    *

    Anagrams

    * English words containing Q not followed by U