Diacríticos
In teaching pronunciation to my ESL students, I discuss the notation used in dictionaries. The breve is often used to designate short vowels, and the macron for long vowels. Conveniently, 'breve' in Spanish is 'breve'. I can invent a name for the macron, like "guión volado", but I can't find a good Spanish equivalent in my dictionaries. Does anyone know the official term?
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Hi ilu, very nice question, welcome to the site
I did not know the word macron and neither did I know macrón, seems to be the same word, greek orgin
Un macrón (del griego ?????? makros "largo") es el diacrítico ¯ situado sobre una vocal para indicar que la vocal es larga. Tiene un significado opuesto al breve ?, usado para indicar una vocal corta. Estas distinciones son usualmente fonémicas.
