Can you name the European languages (using the Latin alphabet) by the diacritical marks on their letters? by dancastro

Can you name the European languages (using the Latin alphabet) by the diacritical marks on their letters?

created by dancastro

Enter a language in the box below
Correctly named languages will show up below
Click any empty Letter with diacritic or Language(s) to answer for that location
Only diacritics used with letters of the Latin alphabet are included. Excluded ones were: obsolete or seldom used diacritics, or those used only in loanwords (although you may find "façade" or "naïve", English isn't accepted for ç or ï), ligatures (Danish æ, French œ) or special letters (Icelandic ð or þ). Only national languages are accepted, not regional ones.
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Letter with diacritic	Language(s)
á
à
â
ä
ã
å
ą
ă
ā
ç
č
ć
ċ
đ
é
è
ê
ë
ě
ę
ē
ė

Letter with diacritic	Language(s)
ğ
ģ
ġ
ħ
í
ì
î
ï
į
ī
ı
ķ
ł
ĺ
ļ
ñ
ň
ń
ņ
ó
ò
ô

Letter with diacritic	Language(s)
ö
õ
ø
ő
ř
ŕ
š
ś
ș
ț
ú
ù
û
ü
ů
ű
ū
ų
ý
ž
ź
ż

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European languages by diacritical mark Quiz

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Created Apr 17, 2011 in Language
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	Fuzzyhippos:	Apr 18th, 2011 at 21:39 GMT	4 points
	i really enjoyed this quiz. good job

	Imon:	May 9th, 2011 at 12:42 GMT	2 points
	I enjoyed the quiz, but I found the contrast between the dark blue and the white was hard to focus on. The black on yellow was much easier, as was the red on gray. Maybe it's just my eyes. Anyway, nice job!

	Pit_trout:	May 9th, 2011 at 15:58 GMT	2 points
	Lovely quiz! Original, and great fun. Perhaps accept Russian and some other cyrillic languages for ë, since the cyrillic letter Ё/ё (in eg the name Фёдор, Fyodor) is typographically identical to roman ë? Or else maybe add a note that roman alphabet languages only are considered.

	Emperor_Ziggy:	May 9th, 2011 at 20:52 GMT	2 points
	If only it accepted Old English for Đ/đ...

	dan144556:	May 9th, 2011 at 22:00 GMT	4 points
	Ziggy, you're thinking of ð, which is a separate letter from đ. It's still used in Icelandic to this day.

	mike5816:	May 10th, 2011 at 03:02 GMT	2 points
	I could not get it to accept Italian for à. I do specifically remember seeing a lot of words ending in -à when I visited Italy. Eventually I gave up on this quiz because the font was too small and I couldn't easily see what some of the diacritical marks were. I suppose I could have forced the browser to increase in size, but these quizzes already don't fit on the screen, so... blah.

	dancastro:	May 10th, 2011 at 04:21 GMT	2 points
	@mike5816: thanks for the information. Really the answer for à appears as "Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese" but I forgot to include Italian for the accepted individual answers. It has been fixed. Of course there are lots of Italian words ending in à, like università, città (city), felicità (happiness), etc.

	adalok:	May 12th, 2011 at 11:20 GMT	3 points
	Please accept also Slovak for á, é, í, ó, ú as these are used pretty commonly in the language. I should know, as I am Slovak :-)

	dancastro:	May 12th, 2011 at 13:57 GMT	2 points
	@adalok: thanks, it was added. It's interesting how the five vowels with acute accent á, é, í, ó, ú are present in languages so different as Spanish (Romance), Icelandic (Germanic), Slovak (Slavic), Irish (Celtic) and even in a non-Indoeuropean one (Hungarian).

	Jaseface727:	May 12th, 2011 at 21:18 GMT	1 point
	The "S" with a curled tail beneath it is Turkish.

	dancastro:	May 12th, 2011 at 21:56 GMT	1 point
	@Jaseface727: thanks. Turkish has been added to Romanian/Moldovan for ș.

	NeerlandsHoop:	May 12th, 2011 at 22:02 GMT	2 points
	Being Dutch I know quite something about Dutch. And ö, ä and ü are very unusual in Dutch, as well as ï. The only letter that is quite often written with " is the ë.

	dancastro:	May 13th, 2011 at 00:15 GMT	2 points
	@NeerlandsHoop: I'll copy from Wikipedia. "When a vowel is followed by another vowel, this combination usually represents a long vowel (aa, ee, eu, ie, oe, oo, uu) or a diphthong (ai, au, ei, ou, ui, aai, eeu, ieu, oei, ooi). When one of these letter combinations should not be pronounced together (phonological hiatus), a trema is placed upon the first vowel of the next syllable [...] For instance, a trema is added in ruïne (ruin) because otherwise ui would be pronounced as a diphthong. It is also added in beëdigen (to swear in) because otherwhise ee would form a long vowel". But, coming from a Dutch native speaker, I'll consider ä, ï, ö and ü as "seldom used" and I'll remove them from the game. Unless other native speakers think differently.

	Medved:	May 13th, 2011 at 19:47 GMT	2 points
	Italian has the "ì" - all of the weekdays end with it "lunedì, martedì..." Also, Serbian uses both Latin and Cyrillic script with the same diacritical marks as Croatian and Serbian.

	Radovan:	May 15th, 2011 at 21:02 GMT	1 point
	Montenegrin has the Ś and the Ź... (Cyrillic: Ć and З́ ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegrin_alphabet

	dancastro:	May 17th, 2011 at 01:02 GMT	2 points
	@Radovan: Montenegrin was added, although its being a language distinct from Serbocroatian seems to be more a political than a linguistic fact. (The same happens with Moldovan as distinct from Romanian).

	loveljubavamor:	May 17th, 2011 at 05:41 GMT	1 point
	I don´t see why you don´t have Serbian up when you have Montenegrin up???

	sveis:	May 17th, 2011 at 15:20 GMT	2 points
	We actually have ê and ô in norwegian as well.

	dancastro:	May 18th, 2011 at 04:07 GMT	1 point
	@loveljubavamor: Serbian was added (I didn't include it initially because I thought that it only used the Cyrillic alphabet with some special letters). @sveis: ê and ô were added for Norwegian (together with â, é, è, ó and ò, which are mentioned in Wikipedia, although I don't know if they should be classified as "seldom used").

	nowachi:	May 28th, 2011 at 12:38 GMT	1 point
	What french word has a ù????

	dancastro:	May 28th, 2011 at 15:17 GMT	3 points
	@nowachi: you find ù in a very common French word, "où" (where).

	skizzo:	May 30th, 2011 at 22:00 GMT	2 points
	ü is used in portuguese too.

	dancastro:	Jun 1st, 2011 at 01:12 GMT	1 point
	@skizzo: I have an Aurélio dictionary (which I bought in Brazil) at the reach of my hand, and missed that one... Yes, ü is used to indicate that the "u" is pronounced, like in "cinqüenta" (fifty), otherwise the "u" would be mute. Thanks and corrected.

	Bober:	Jun 3rd, 2011 at 22:24 GMT	3 points
	ü is only used in Brazilian Portuguese, but not in "European" Portuguese (that, spoken in Portugal). Actually, they used ü in Brazil until 1 or 2 years ago, but now apparently abolished it.

	dancastro:	Jun 7th, 2011 at 02:34 GMT	2 points
	@Bober: you're totally right. There was a recent reform in Brazil (of which I wasn't aware) to unify the spelling with that used in Portugal, so ü ceased to be used. This means that you (living at 8,000 km from Brazil) had better information than the one that I had (living at 500 km). Thanks!

	inomu:	Jun 14th, 2011 at 13:02 GMT	3 points
	š and ž are used in Finnish language too like in the words Fidži (Fiji) and šakki (chess). But they could be classified as "seldom used", especiallly ž.

	NeerlandsHoop:	Jun 20th, 2011 at 14:14 GMT	2 points
	@dancastro (May 13th): Wiki explains it well there. Words like sleeën (riding a sled) show someone he first has to pronounce the 'ee' vowel first and then the 'e'. A word like ruïne is a good example of the use of ï. If it were 'ruine' it would be pronounced differntly. So I'd say, let ï and ë in the quiz for Dutch. Words with ä, ö or ü are very unlikely in Dutch and as far as I can think of only used in Dutch words with a foreign origin, mostly German. The (from origin German) words 'föhn' (hairdryer) and 'überhaupt' (kind of a word for anyway) are two of the few examples I can think of. So I'd say, those letters are not really part of the Dutch language. If you assume the German pronounciation (which is obviously the closest language to Dutch) we have a different way of writing almost the same tones. The German ä is very much like the Dutch 'ee', the ö is written by us as 'eu' and the ü is 'uu'. So you can say we don't need ä, ö and ü really.

	stad:	Jul 15th, 2011 at 13:59 GMT	2 points
	What about Scots Gaelic? It uses the è, à, ì, ò or ù.

	SteCymru14:	Sep 25th, 2011 at 17:51 GMT	2 points
	Welsh? âêîôûŵŷ

	Seysayux:	Dec 28th, 2011 at 15:08 GMT	2 points
	For Dutch, I'd like to add that ü is often used in past participles, such as "geüpdatet" (updated), however, many people often forget the (strictly spoken required) diacritical mark on words (in fact, most people do not now how to correctly spell the past participle of "updaten" (to update) and other English derived verbs). ö is used in the zoö- and oö- prefixes, such as in "zoölogie" or "oöcyt". I do not know of any commonly used words with "ä" in them. This article on Wikipedia: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trema_in_de_Nederlandse_spelling shows a list of commonly used words with ë, ï, ö, and ü in them. (The "diaresis" is called "trema" in Dutch, as, while it appearance is indentical to the the "umlaut" or diaresis, its function is different). é and è are used as well, in French-derived words, like "café" and "crème". As far as I know, no commonly used words have ê in them, ê being stripped from most French-derived words. à is also used in French-derived words, also as a standalone word "à" (like in French) meaning "per" or "for", often used in pricing: "drie kilo à 5 euro" (three kilograms for 5 euros) Most of this stuff is explained on the Dutch Wikipedia, though (you can try reading it with Google Translate, it's quite good for DutchEnglish translations IMHO). - SeySayux

	giraki:	Mar 3rd, 2012 at 16:10 GMT	1 point
	Swedish has é and à too, just sayin'…