CARON
Caron
A caron or háček, also known as a wedge, inverted circumflex, inverted hat, is a diacritic placed over certain letters to indicate present or historical palatalization, iotation, or postalveolar pronunciation in the orthography of some Baltic, Slavic, Finno-Lappic, and other languages. The caron also indicates the third tone in the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Caron
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