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<p>New page: A &#039;&#039;&#039;macron&#039;&#039;&#039; (/ˈmækrɒn,_ˈmeɪ-/ &#039;&#039;MAK-ron,_MAY-&#039;&#039;) is a <a href="/index.php?title=Diacritical_mark&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Diacritical mark (page does not exist)">diacritical mark</a>: it is a straight bar ¯ placed above a letter, usually a <a href="/index.php?title=Vowel&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Vowel (page does not exist)">vowel</a>. Its name derives from [[Ancient Gree...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>A &#039;&#039;&#039;macron&#039;&#039;&#039; (/ˈmækrɒn,_ˈmeɪ-/ &#039;&#039;MAK-ron,_MAY-&#039;&#039;) is a [[diacritical mark]]: it is a straight bar ¯ placed above a letter, usually a [[vowel]]. Its name derives from [[Ancient Greek]] μακρόν (&#039;&#039;makrón&#039;&#039;) &#039;long&#039; because it was originally used to mark [[syllable weight#Classical poetry|long or heavy]] [[syllable]]s in [[meter (poetry)#Greek and Latin|Greco-Roman metrics]]. It now more often marks a [[vowel length|long]] [[vowel]]. In the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]], the macron is used to indicate a [[tone (linguistics)|mid-tone]]; the sign for a long vowel is instead a modified triangular [[Colon (punctuation)#Diacritical usage|colon]] &lt;ː&gt;.<br /> <br /> The opposite is the [[breve]] &lt;˘&gt;, which marks a short or light syllable or a short vowel.<br /> <br /> {{Donate}}</div>

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