Ogonek

The ogonek (of the Polish “small tail”) is a sign Diacritique of the Latin alphabet, it is used in particular in Polish and Lituanien to mark the nasality vowel to which it is attached, like in some Amerindian Langues.

In Lithuanian

The sign, called nosinė , sticks to the four fundamental short vowels of the Lithuanian (has, E, I, U): Ą/ą, Ę/ę, Į/į, Ų/ų were formerly nasal vowels, whose nasality was lost today with the profit of a lengthening.

One can thus regard these nasal histories as recent long vowels, in opposition to the historical long vowels O, ė, there, ū . The į and the ų respectively merge in the pronunciation with the long vowels there and ū , while the ą and the ę are distinct from the nonnasal long vowels O and ė , more closed.

Ogonek in data processing

Apart from the provisions of keyboard conceived for Polish and the Lithuanian, the ogonek, if it is accessible, can be made up by the means of a touches dead , i.e. of a key behaving as the key ^ French-speaking keyboards. One thus types initially the key or combination of key corresponding to the ogonek, then the vowel which must carry it.

Such a key misses with the majority keyboards AZERTY. One can however write a vowel with ogonek while rocking towards more complete provisions of keyboard.

  • Under Mac OS X 10.3 and Mac OS X 10.4, it is appropriate to select the method of seizure " American keyboard étendu" , to type " option" +" M" and to supplement by the letter to accentuate (by taking guard with the fact that the keyboard is regarded as being QWERTY). On a keyboard QWERTY, the letter M is located at the position of the character " virgule" of a keyboard AZERTY, which can facilitate its memorizing, the ogonek resembling a comma.

A vowel with ogonek can also be copied starting from a table of characters Unicode.

External bonds

  • accents on a keyboard Mac

See too

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