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Î is used to get a longer value of I, becoming /iː/. It can be found for example in all verbs of the fourth conjugation: pandî /paɳ'diː/, (to revel). Another use of Î (and also the other long vowels), is due to Latin derivation.

Í, í (i-acute) is a letter in the Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak, Czech, and Slovak languages, where it often indicates a long /i/ vowel (ee in English word feel).

Î is used to get a longer value of I, becoming /iː/. It can be found for example in all verbs of the fourth conjugation: pandî /paɳ'diː/, (to revel). Another use of Î (and also the other long vowels), is due to Latin derivation.

Ā, lowercase ā, is a grapheme, a Latin A with a macron, used in several orthographies. Ā is used to denote a long A.

Í, í (i-acute) is a letter in the Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak, Czech, and Slovak languages, where it often indicates a long /i/ vowel (ee in English word feel).

The non-linguists among us may know these lines and shapes as accent marks, but their true name is diacritical marks or diacritics.

Ā, lowercase ā, is a grapheme, a Latin A with a macron, used in several orthographies. Ā is used to denote a long A.

The phonics i sound is broken up into two parts. First is the short i sound, which makes a verbal sound like “ih” when spoken. The long i sound, however, sounds exactly like the letter: it is pronounced “eye.”

The Printing Press was invented, and printing typeface changed the shape of some letters to fit the needs of printing to avoid blurring and mistaking individual letters. The double-story [a] and [g] were used – and continue to be used in most documents, books, and printed material today.

The non-linguists among us may know these lines and shapes as accent marks, but their true name is diacritical marks or diacritics.

The phonics i sound is broken up into two parts. First is the short i sound, which makes a verbal sound like “ih” when spoken. The long i sound, however, sounds exactly like the letter: it is pronounced “eye.”

A with tilde (majuscule: Ã, minuscule: ã) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the tilde diacritic over the letter A.

Â, â (a-circumflex) is a letter of the Inari Sami, Skolt Sami, Romanian, Vietnamese and Mizo alphabets. This letter also appears in French, Friulian, Frisian, Portuguese, Turkish, Walloon, and Welsh languages as a variant of the letter "a".

The Printing Press was invented, and printing typeface changed the shape of some letters to fit the needs of printing to avoid blurring and mistaking individual letters. The double-story [a] and [g] were used – and continue to be used in most documents, books, and printed material today.

The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type.

A with tilde (majuscule: Ã, minuscule: ã) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the tilde diacritic over the letter A.

Ā is used to denote a long A. Examples are the Baltic languages (e.g. Latvian), Polynesian languages, some romanizations of Japanese, Persian, Pashto, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (which represents a long A sound) and Arabic, and some Latin texts (especially for learners).

Â, â (a-circumflex) is a letter of the Inari Sami, Skolt Sami, Romanian, Vietnamese and Mizo alphabets. This letter also appears in French, Friulian, Frisian, Portuguese, Turkish, Walloon, and Welsh languages as a variant of the letter "a".

The acute accent indicates the long form of a vowel (in case of i/í, o/ó, u/ú) while the double acute performs the same function for ö and ü. The acute accent can also indicate a different sound (more open, like in case of a/á, e/é).

The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type.

Macron (pronounced /mā-ˌkrän/): ā, ē, ī, ō A macron is a straight line ( − ) that is placed over a vowel. This symbol gives a vowel a long sound.

Ā is used to denote a long A. Examples are the Baltic languages (e.g. Latvian), Polynesian languages, some romanizations of Japanese, Persian, Pashto, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (which represents a long A sound) and Arabic, and some Latin texts (especially for learners).

The acute accent indicates the long form of a vowel (in case of i/í, o/ó, u/ú) while the double acute performs the same function for ö and ü. The acute accent can also indicate a different sound (more open, like in case of a/á, e/é).

Macron (pronounced /mā-ˌkrän/): ā, ē, ī, ō A macron is a straight line ( − ) that is placed over a vowel. This symbol gives a vowel a long sound.