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1. Circumflex

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   The circumflex ($\wedge$), derived from the Latin circumflexus ("bent around"), is a diacritic mark characterized by a hat-like or pointed shape placed over a grapheme. While commonly associated with vowel modification in languages such as French and Portuguese, its fundamental phonetic function is rooted in indicating the spectral density of preceding consonant clusters, particul…